What Is America's Defining Cultural Characteristics

Have you ever wondered how High Schools are in other countries? Despite sharing some minor similarities, the differences between Nicaraguan and American High School education are clear. Such as, note-taking methods, grading system, classroom environment.

A factor that contributes immensely to the success of an economy as a whole is diversity. An organization that can effectively unite individuals from different cultures and backgrounds can expect healthy growth in the future. However, diversity can be considered to a much greater extent. When analyzing any economy, one can observe that is formed by large firms, medium sized firms, small firms, and firms that are barely getting on their feet. No matter the size or type of business, they all significantly contribute to the overall well being of any economy. Furthermore, one type of institution that forms a considerable facet of the diversity of economies are entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship describes any institution that begins without the support of any higher corporation or established business. Any individual can study how an entrepreneur works and makes decisions in an economics class or they can even major in entrepreneurship in some universities. However, these educational institutions many times fail to inculcate in their students how these types of business actually operate in the real world. With that in mind, a concise yet profound analysis of a small business in Buckeye, Arizona will consider how an entrepreneur owned business truly works.

Before I begin,I would like to say that this piece of visual art is absolutely amazing. As I was trying to find a visual art,this picture immediately caught my eye. This art obviously expresses cultural identity.

As Americans we do not realize how high maintenance we are. If I am at a restaurant and my food comes out wrong I am immediately going to tell my server. Some may even rudely confront them without hesitation. In Honduras, this situation would be handled differently. Most Hondurans are not worried about going out to dinner, they are more concerned about whether or not they will have a single meal a day.

Scientific and technological progress is one of the most important and far reaching of humanity’s effort streams throughout history. One of the hallmarks of any great society is what new or improved knowledge of the world and how it works that the society can contribute. A strong and vibrant culture celebrates the spirit of invention and innovation. Closely allied with this concept is the spirit of entrepreneurship, considered one of the greatest qualities of the American culture.

In 5th grade, I taught the whole class about my culture. Since many kids were bored during class, I decided to “spice” things up to an extent. Numerous people did not know my true identity of diversity. I brought yoga videos, food, etc. just to teach uniqueness. One such example was the classic rock candy. I brought in rock candy, beautiful crystal candy encased with sugary sweetness that people ate. Their miniscule size was complimented by their immense taste. Initially, my classmates were a little skeptical, thinking “why is he bringing this in?” Once people in my class started to taste it, they could not stop wanting it. By the end of the year, instead of declining to accept the culture, they begged me to bring what I could to them so they could experience the culture I did. Small steps like this define the characteristics of an entrepreneur like

During my time of deployment, I experience a different culture that had open up my knowledge about life. It was the few months that I was in Kuwait and I had duty in the Kuwait Naval Base cafeteria and gym. There was a lot of Muslim workers there and I had to work with them, therefore; I started to socialize with them and learning there culture. They spoke very broken English but I was able to interpret it pretty well. I even had a chance to join them for their Ramadan and I was very honored with that invitation. After few months of interact with them I started to realize the only different between their culture and the American culture is that they don’t eat pork and prefer lamb, chicken, and fish as their primary protein diet. Although they

Entrepreneurship is discovered in many forms. Dale Carnegie, for example, wrote a novel about ideas that had never been touched before. These ideas can help show why Martha does not have many close friends in her workplace even after an extended period of time, and why Mario danced with his new co-workers in the kitchen on his first day of work. Martha is socially challenged because she unknowingly fails to exercise crucial principles regarding attitude, appreciation, and arguments. These principles are mentioned by Carnegie, a well-known American author born in 1888, in his most popular work entitled “How to Win Friends and Influence People” first published in 1936; this incredibly famous self-help novel has sold fifteen million copies worldwide.

Three cultural aspects that I observed in the movies are assimilation, acculturation, and enculturation. I saw assimilation in both Spanglish and Crash. In Spanglish, Cristina was the one who went through assimilation. She adapted the American culture and left behind her Hispanic culture. She learned English, Mrs. Clasky took her shopping, and she was able to go to a private school. In the movie Crash, assimilation is seen through all the different people who have adopted the American lifestyle. One example for this is Farhad and Dorri. They are both Persian who still speak Persian, but they have learned to speak English and adopt American culture. I saw acculturation in Spanglish. Flor was the one who went through acculturation. She had a hard time adjusting to the new culture. She wanted to stay with her Hispanic culture, even though she moved to Los Angeles. Flor does not learn to speak English until near the end of the movie. I saw enculturation in Spanglish and Crash. In Spanglish, Cristina finds enculturation. At the end of the movie, Cristina acknowledges that her life rest firmly on the fact that she is her mother’s daughter. I want to believe that Cristina has become bicultural. She still has her American culture as well as going back to her Hispanic culture. In the movie Crash, Farhad and Dorri are both keeping their Persian culture and adapting to the American culture.

Of course, culture has a huge role in how we are brought up. This falls into the nature vs nurture idea that we discussed in previous weeks. I'm completely aware that this is something that has developed in our culture and others similar to it. Although, we can still see some division within our own country. Say you go to the southern United States, the people there aren't going to take as kindly to a woman doing, say a construction job, or any other job that is primary done by men, but if you go to say New York or California there may still be some division, but I don't feel it would be as harsh. The same goes for the entire gay marriage movement, I'd imagine the southern states wouldn't take as kindly to it as they would in some of the more

Throughout history cultures have come and gone. Cultures from many distinct civilizations and empires were able to be conceived but yet most became utterly ruined. However certain societies and cultures were able to thrive for longer periods of times and outlast others. The more sophisticated a culture was, the greater the influence it had over smaller ones eventually merging together to establish a strong society; therefore creating a longer lasting culture. How do these cultures develop and “outperform” others to survive for long periods of time? Through two factors: how advanced the society is technologically, socially, economically, and politically and the role of the society in world affairs. These principles help dictate the how valuable certain cultures are compared to others and ultimately extend the lifetime of societies and their culture.

Next, when Israel Kirzner would examine Startup America he would approve of its focus on entrepreneurship in America, however, he would find flaws in the methods that Startup America uses. First, he would like how Startup America concentrated on promoting entrepreneurship, as he also believes it is directly correlated to economic development. In Kirzner’s article, “The Alert and Creative Entrepreneur”, he says, “ Successful entrepreneurship plays an enormously significant role in driving economic development, growth, an in the achievement of the prosperous economy”(1). Clearly, as stated in his article, Kirzner understands the significance of successful entrepreneurship and how it can impact the economy, therefore, he wants to find ways to promote entrepreneurship and increase its success, which is exactly what Startup America is doing. Although, Kirzner would agree with the philosophy of Startup America, he would dislike how it prioritizes everything. Instead of prioritizing, Kirzner would call for clear and equal rules, which would produce equality throughout the economy. Basically, Kirzner would find that Startup

Francisco Cantor, Booth ’16, was bitten by the entrepreneurship bug during his undergrad days. He built a company for importing and distributing mobile phone accessory in Venezuela. The company was a huge success. He sold it off after some time, and tried to venture into another vertical- Retail. This venture turned out to be a total failure. Upon reflection he realized that the offerings were too high end compared to what people were looking for.

In today’s society, the key factor of entrepreneurship is to allow people to become self-supporting. Entrepreneurship is an employ approach that helps lead people to financial self-sufficiency, even for people with disabilities. Entrepreneurship supplies people with disabilities and their relatives with the prospective to consider and establish enterprises as the boss, rather than just being an employee. Many possibilities come from entrepreneurs and their concepts that they contribute to the world. They can assist to the moneys in a number of ways. There are exceptional ways that entrepreneurs add value to America’s capitals is through investments, paid work, providing diverse goods and services, worldwide trade, and much more. The

A recent study by Ernst and Young found that 78% of influential Americans believe that entrepreneurship will be the defining trend of this century. The entrepreneurial opportunity that topped their list was: