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    Culture is the characteristics of group that contain their language, religion, music, food, social habits, and arts. Culture can be learned or transmitted by experience and participation. African American culture has been passed through many generations, and still contains many elements like those of a ring shout. African American culture has been changed, but like a tree still contains its roots. From call-and-response to a simple rift or guitar being strung without African American much of today’s

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    Each of the cultures is a set of beliefs, values and attitudes that shaped by local conditions and values based on the various sector of history, cultural issues, economics and politics, geographical and also personal characteristics and beliefs. In the other hand, globalization is overwhelming and spread tremendously through the world, individual in different countries starting to have similar tastes and preferences towards the products, yet, the business strategies and cultural issues are overlapping

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    Popular culture in Latin America is “everything that has caused an action of doing or have done” (Hall). Also it can be seen as people desirers in which popular culture can describe them. Popular culture is associated with all different kinds of symbols that include music, language, food, symbolic people, religion, government, colors, social class, dress code, historical account, photograph, art, gender roles and many more. These symbols have the ability of making a Latin America full of popular

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    American culture is heavily influenced by the Hispanic culture because when Hispanic people move to America they bring their culture with them. Their culture has influenced our religion, cuisine, social media, etc. Hispanic people make up 15.8% of the population in America so it is no surprise that they are the leading minority group to have influence on American culture. Hispanic culture influences states with a larger Hispanic population. More than half of the Hispanic population lives in California

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    from Central America. He is unfamiliar with American customs and claims that he is undergoing culture shock and needs my help with the adjustment. In this paper, I will define assimilation and present the pros and cons of Jorge assimilating fully into US culture. Also, I will explain the relationship between language and culture and list some ways that Jorge can viably communicate with others in a multicultural society to help his integration into American society go smoothly. Cultural assimilation

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    Music is known as an universal language, it is an enormous part of cultures around the world.It has the power to get ideas and emotions across to all different kinds of people. Jazz is one genre of music that has affected our American culture and has since the beginning of the 20th century. The introduction of jazz has made a huge impact to American lives. With its intricate rhythms and sounds, it has helped bring people together and has helped us evolve as a society. Influencing our clothing, behavior

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    S. Korea using Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of Culture Enoch Kang ORG300 – Applying Leadership Principles Colorado State University – Global Campus Laurel Schneider February 6, 2015   Comparison between the U.S. and S. Korea using Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of Culture How cultural backgrounds affect work relationships? I’m a Korean American who immigrated to the United States when I was 21 years old and learning new cultures. Therefore, I have both American and Korean propensities. This essay shows cultural

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    Cherokee Nation and an Assistant Professor of American and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, Dr. Keene is well established as an authority to speak on this subject. To introduce the presentation, she started by showing the audience the first page of Google Image results for “Native American”, then explained some of the problems clearly displayed on screen. One of her highlights on this was that so much of this search result - and so much of Native American representation as a whole- is old, historic

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    Represent Many parts of music popular culture was created or directly influenced by Black music. Through the history of Black musical forms, each style represented a reality of the Black community, whether regionally or based on the time period and politics. Before enslaved Africans had the education to write their stories, they were told orally, often set to music. Highlighting the genius of a people, when there were ideas and stories that were adverse to those in power, Black people were able

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    number of cultures around the world, with things that makes each of them unique. What is culture? “Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts”. (Zimmerman 1) In other words culture is everything that makes us who we are and it’s the building blocks that created the society that we were raised in. While doing research I found out that I closely identify with the Southern American culture

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