Since I live in Hawaii I am very aware of the popular ‘surfing’ culture prevalent here and in warm coastal areas of the U.S.‚ Australia and many other countries. The sport may have been brought to Hawaii by the first Polynesian settlers. It was popularized and associated with Hawaii by Duke Kahanamoku‚ an Olympic athlete and champion surfer (Bourne‚ 2013). The media spread and popularized the surfing culture to southern California and Australia through Hollywood films e.g. Gidget [1959] and The Endless
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Eastern and Western cultures have extremely different ways of learning. In the article‚ Jim Stigler experiments with these various cultures in order to fully understand how each of them tackle learning. Therefore‚ Stigler traveled to Japan to study teaching methods presented there. While he was there‚ he noticed many things that Japanese classrooms obtained. For instance‚ the teachers call up the students that are struggling to demonstrate the problem opposed to the child that already understands
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People all around the world have different communication styles based on their culture legacies. I‚ too‚ am affected by my Chinese culture when I communicate with others. In the chapter “The Ethnic Theory on Plane Crashes” in Outlier‚ author Malcolm Gladwell discusses the importance of cultural legacy on communication. Many of the plane crashes can be explained with “mitigated speech” by plane officers‚ meaning “any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said” (194). People’s
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Whether we know it or not‚ culture affects our lives in countless ways. The culture that people grow up in is‚ most of the time‚ what their beliefs are based on. This includes beliefs about health care‚ how we treat‚ view‚ and recover from illness. The culture around us also can limit our access to health care or can broaden the types of treatment we receive. In the United States‚ we are blessed to have so much scientific knowledge. We understand a large number of diseases enough to know the cause
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I was born in Scarborough‚ my background is Srilankan and I speak Tamil. My personal culture is rooted in some Canadian culture however it is mostly influenced by the Tamil culture. My family is huge‚ my dad has 11 siblings and my mom has five siblings in total I have 31 first cousins. The majority of us are all close. A word that I will use to describe my personal culture will be mellow and peaceful. My family and I practice the religion Hinduism. Like every Hindu‚ we celebrate Diwali. On this
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I decided to write my response over the rape culture video‚ because rape is something that hits home for me. When I was 14 years old‚ my best friend from high school and I were hanging around some older guys that were a couple years older than us. We put ourselves in a situation where we were out numbered‚ and drinking was involved. We were both young‚ and until this point had not drank alcohol. An 18-year-old boy raped my best friend that night. She was very intoxicated and he had not drunk at all
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but to think that the purpose of a shopping mall was for everyone to have one convenient place to buy anything they desired. But‚ the viewpoints expressed though "Community through Exclusion and Illusion" by George Lewis and "Shopping for American Culture‚" by James J. Farrell‚ have led me to believe that the shopping mall also serves as a community center. Another article which captured my attention was Ira Zepp’s‚ "The Shopping Mall as Sacred Place." They each express their ideas of how the shopping
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from an intercultural and interracial family; according to ancestry.com DNA I am Cameroon/Congo 29%‚ Ivory Coast/Ghana 21%‚ and Ireland 20%. Culturally I identify with the American culture and the African American subculture of North America as referenced in our text African American culture differs from African culture. I will discuss my current cultural perspective as it pertains to communication. When I grew up in Buffalo‚ New York my family practiced Catholicism‚ we attended the local African
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Corporate culture is often thought of as that touchy-feely stuff that is difficult to define and should be left up to Human Resources to manage. For some it conjures images of toys scattered through the office and Segways running up and down the corridors‚ while some young pierced tech guy sits at his cube jamming out to music while he works. The reality is that culture is a business issue that has significant impact on a venture’s ability to generate a return on investment and should be prioritized
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In the article‚ “Cinderella and Princess Culture”‚ Peggy Orenstein‚ a contributing writer for New York Times Magazine‚ explores the successful “princess” market and how it negatively impacts young children. Orenstein claims that the princess culture promotes a common gender stereotype of women to young children‚ especially young girls; therefore‚ society should lessen the encouragement of being a “princess” and fortify their promotion to a more strong-willed role model (327). Although the article
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