including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures on their own terms78. He is trying to show us that the American way of life is not the “correct” way of living. I would explain Nacirema to a stranger as wordplay on American norms‚ rules regarding what
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Hum 105~World Mythology Assignment One How is the word myth used popularly? For example‚ what does the statement‚ “It’s a myth” mean? In contrast‚ how is the word myth used in the academic context? After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials‚ write a definition in your own words. The word myth is used most popularly in tales and stories. These tales and stories have been passed down from generation to generation and are based on some truth‚ but mostly an idea
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know this‚ they may misunderstand others. Therefore‚ studying abroad requires people to know something about intercultural communication. Almost all business‚ whether domestic or international‚ involves communication with people from different cultural backgrounds. If people are doing business in China‚ they should not talk about their work directly. People usually invites businessman to have dinner together. During the dinner‚ when the atmosphere is good‚ people can talk about their work. However
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belonging in the aspect of equal opportunity and working as one. It enhances our culture because we take those instances to make our future society equals‚ and to accept everyone as we are‚ not from what we are or where we come from. This is an a cultural aspect of Americas Western Society. 4. Consider some origin stories told about groups of which you are a part: for example‚ the origin of a nation‚ a company‚ a church‚ or an ethnic group. Are these stories similar to or different from classic
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behind them. They offer a sense of security‚ an explanation‚ or a warning depending on the myth or legend. However‚ as time goes by‚ the original cause of the legend can be lost and it will simply become a silly story told by the generations as a cultural tradition. In the case of the Loch Ness monster‚ the origin of the
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heritage made by society (task 1) In The perspectives magazine there is many interesting texts. Some are about old traditions‚ some are about how a country was many years ago and some are about how are name makes who we are. The thing I like the most about the text in the magazine was the ones about how small things like our skin color or our name changes who we are in the eyes of the people around us. In the text “The day I became black” we hear a story from a boy with an African-American mother
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same god or goddess might be portrayed differently depending on the context in which the story was told. One important factor which contributed to the various versions of myths is polis---Greek city states. People of different polis had their own cultural heritage as well as perception of the world. As Greeks owed much to the heritage of Mesopotamian and Anatolian cultures‚ their mythology borrowed heavily from what had gone before. Linguist discovered that the name ¡°Zeus¡± can be traced back to
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The article Eating Christmas In The Kalahari by Richard Borshay Lee reveals to its readers the topic of the life of Bushmen tribes in the Africa. The author describes his experience of life among the Bushmen. Moreover‚ he shares the lesson that he got from the representatives of this tribal group. This situation helped the article’s author to open for himself the principles regulating the social relations of this group of people and to better understand the value of social concepts in the life of
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Alejandro Rios Summer Reading Essay: Culture Culture‚ it represents a place and its different types of people that live there. This great varied term can be expressed in many lots of ways. There many definitions to the word culture. One of the definitions we use today is basically what makes up a civilization. A British anthropologist named Sir Edward Burnett defined culture into different categories‚ not just race or ethnicity‚ which is a common way of people determining ones culture. Different
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The trickster character has a driving curiosity to breaks rules that ultimately leads to unexpected positive results. In the Haida First Nations mythology‚ the raven is the trickster character and cultural hero that creates the world by stealing‚ exchanging‚ and other works of trickery. The raven is established as the trickster character in the first paragraph‚ where it is described to be curious with the urge to meddle and provoke things. The
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