American culture

Cultures vary tremendously throughout the world and within many of these cultures are sub-cultures that do not necessarily operate under the same standards for example, the culture of American college students. “Subcultures, according to Clark and Trow, represent clusters of attitudes, norms, and models of behaviors rather than groups of people” (Warren, 1968). It is hard for someone to not have any ethnocentric bias to a culture they have not yet been part of or witnessed first hand. Transitioning

I stand between two worlds: the American and the Chinese culture, one which I was born into, the other I was raised into. The two doctrines drag at me constantly with a noose around my neck constantly warning me of accepting the other doctrine. Throughout my life, my family functioned on a basic norm: to not trust others and to value only the worth of my family, yet within the American institution, I learned to function upon the doctrines of cooperation and individualism. My life was thus a constant

differences in culture segregate me quite greatly compared to the “normal” person in America, I am

their ages because of their culture. Usually an elder man is the most powerful person in a family and a decision maker. Parents didn’t used to allow to speak up anything from their children and also some physical violence were accepted as discipline, but it’s been changing. Uncertainly avoidance is weak in a family situation, on the other hand, the US has weak uncertainly avoidance

The American government considers itself a knight in shining armor fighting the ugly dragon of injustice, and hate. In reality, it looks more like a bum, racking up debt and enforcing ignorance and intolerance. The IRB, institutional review board, limits anthropologists from studying people they consider “vulnerable”. These are groups that include: "prisoners, terminally ill persons, children, people with mental illness, and pregnant women”. When the government bodies prohibit anthropologists from

I was born in America, but grew up with both the American and Egyptian cultures. This had a great impact on my life. People ask me about my culture all the time and this has triggered my interest in other cultures. It taught me to be tolerant and understanding toward other cultures and beliefs. This has helped me on many occasions to work successfully with others as well as become empathetic. Over the past couple of years I have traveled to Egypt and Sint Maarten. Traveling to different countries

Many countries in the 21st Century became multicultural with the increase in global movement. The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions, experiences, and patterns of health care practices among Arab Americans and then to discover perceptions and experiences of health care providers associated to culturally competent care. I selected this cultural as we are caring lot of patients from this background especially in the pediatric oncology unit where I am working at MD Anderson. They are the

The book “The Yin and Yang of American Culture A Paradox” by Eunice Yinter. The book is quite interesting to read, and learning the views of a person born and raised in Asia was very revealing. It can be difficult to determine other people's views of Americans from casual observation. Five of the virtues listed as Yang in the book seem true to me and related to each other. These virtues are: dreaming the impossible, frontier spirit, daring to be yourself, individual merit, and competitive spirit

been learning about industry and underserved communities; the political framework of organizations; and cultural differences between Latinos and Americans. The purpose of this is to create social change at the systemic level to transform communities. When learning about the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the program was described as an “exchange of cultures to better the relations between the two nations.” My initial intention for the US-UK Fulbright Commission was to expand my limited knowledge of

When speaking to a coworker who culture is German, we could relate to some things and we had some differences beings though my culture is African American. There were some things we could relate on about our cultures being similar such as most Germans are Christian he stated, and with my culture it is about the same, you do have people who are not Christian but majority of the population is. Another thing that he mentioned that we had alike was I asked what holidays he celebrate and he stated Christmas