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    controversial at times, diversity is an inevitable concept that needs to be discussed more openly, especially in the classrooms of early childhood. Unfortunately, racial and cultural ignorance still remains a common sight in today’s world, especially that of American society. While my family and I were out shopping in a large mall a couple of years ago, one of my nieces (who was around 4 years old at the time) saw a little girl wearing a Hijab who seemed to be around her same age. To be fair, I was surprised

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    Culture, our heritage, our beliefs, our individuality. Growing up our culture has impacted us in a big way. As a child we often feel uncomfortable in our skin, we want to blend in with everyone else, we hide our culture and ethnicity, our roots, to satisfy others. However, the older we get the more comfortable we become in our skin, the more we want to stand out in the crowd, and we learn to become proud and confident in our culture. Culture has that amazing impact on us. Culture influences us in

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    recent anthropology related article on slave findings at the Magnolia Plantation in Louisiana. The name of the article that I found was called Slave Culture Research Showcased at New Smithsonian Museum written by Katelyn Kenny. This article interested me the most because I am very interested in African American culture and the history of African Americans and how they were treated as slaves, which is why I choose to write about this particular article for my extra credit assignment. The article states

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    Mark Loftus Prof. Downie ENG 102 21 February 2016 Obesity in American Culture Obesity plays an undeniable role in today 's culture. Many factors such as increased meal size, food being advertised more often, lack of physical activity required for jobs, technology becoming a necessity in everyday life hindering activity, and unhealthy food being available at almost every corner of the streets. Ethnic backgrounds also play a role in obesity. Growing up I dealt with being overweight and had to

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    The culture and American society is a new experience, but I have to learn to adapt. There is a lot of culture shock when trying to match American society. As an American we must learn to understand jokes and sarcasticism. It is a system of social sharing, learned the values ​​and norms; this is the design of the society to live. It affects the way we view the fl at, habits, preferences and our way we relate to other people. Value is a summary of the ideas that are on the good things, right and desirable

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    The American culture is influence by many other cultures. America is a multicultural country where we sometimes get along and learn from each other. Culture is an organized system of living and thinking. It contains shared attitudes, values, goals, and behaviors that are present in individuals, groups, organizations, or regions of the world. (Vissing, 2011) Some values in American culture are freedom, materialism, and time. Freedom in American culture is that people are responsible for their own

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    1. What is the country of origin? a. The country of origin for Anglo-Americans is considered Western Europe. Also, Anglo-Americans are considered an ethnic group with European descendants. (Rosdahl & Kowalski, 2017) 2. What are the general beliefs/values/practices/rituals of the culture? a. The Anglo-American culture values youth rather than old age and consider it acceptable to place elderly individuals in a nursing home when they can no longer individually care for themselves. The previous statemen

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    from one culture taking or borrowing aspects of another culture that is not their own. “Appropriation occurs when a style leads to the racial [assumptions and] generalizations…where it [may have stemmed from], but is deemed as high-fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves” (Stenburg). In spite of the slight confusion, cultural appropriation is far more than the idea of pizza merging from Italian immigrants, and eventually becoming a food many people label as American. Cultural

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    American culture like most things in the world has an effect on people in other countries and societies, lamentably the effect is not positive. American culture reaches these other countries through mostly the media, not always just the media but also through the food marketing industry, which have negative effects that make America look inadequate. First and foremost, American cultures effects on countries and different cultures are negative in not only the way that it is making Americans look

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    another without a sacrifice their particular identities. It can also mean a tutti frutti cocktail of culture. Language in pluralism with two term used interchangeably with mixed ethnic community area where multiple culture tradition exists or a single country within they do. A fundamental characteristic of the Canadian heritage and associate to buy from them and trade like the British, Germany, and American. Canadian celebrate the gift of one another presence and work hard to respect pluralism and live

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