Culture diversity is defined as: the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world‚ a society‚ or an institution according to dictionary.com. I decided to research the African American culture because their culture interested me most. The structure in African American families is often an extended family with non-related “family” members. The family is typically matriarchal because African American families are far more likely become single parent’s households. Grandparents are
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systems‚ traditions‚ modes of life and beliefs of the society. It also absorbs from other cultures and undergoes changes with time‚ sometimes beneficial‚ sometimes regressive. When the word "culture" is mentioned‚ we can think of many things as "cultural"‚ such as language‚ clothings... etc‚ because we classify cultures of different places. However‚ culture is so valuable that it has to be kept for thousands of years‚and passed on by one generation to another. Culture is so important that it is more
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Catholic influences‚ from my parents to the rest of the people living around us. My parents both grew up with those Catholic teachings all their lives as well‚ considering my father grew up in a pure Italian family and my mother came from a Ukrainian background. Today I continue to live my life with those same virtues and have also passed them down to my son the same way my parents did to me. As I have gone through the experiences of assimilation‚ acculturation‚ and a climate of pluralism; my identity
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Personal Cultural Background A person’s identity is unique and has a foundation of various sources. These sources may be different for every person‚ ranging from a person’s upbringing to a person’s religion. This paper will define cultural background and examine the multiple sources that make up my own personal cultural background that helped mold my individual identity. Furthermore‚ the paper will speculate on the extent to which my current identity has been molded by assimilation‚ acculturation
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including Hispanics‚ South Asian‚ Middle Eastern and Eastern Asian. I tended to live in poorer neighborhoods growing up and more middle class as of now. 3-The first time I became aware of my cultural background was when....do you identify yourself with any group. The first time I became aware of my cultural background was probably in Kindergarten. I hadn’t noticed until then. I tend to identify
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Fisher Cultural Background My cultural background can be described as very unpleasant‚ I had it hard from all races. My own culture put me down because I was light skin and red hair‚ other culture groups put me down because I was black. From the time I started school until my first year of High School‚ I was known to some races as being to good and yet to another race not being good enough. I learned later on in school that appearance do not reveal much about each other’s backgrounds and experiences
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is the African American and the Latino American. This two minority cultural groups have witness discrimination‚ stereotype‚ and bias. The diversity situation or cultural dilemma that I chose is discrimination. When dealing with discrimination it links to other things such as being stereotyped and biases. I feel these three topics have something in common which is someone or a cultural group is being judged. In the paragraph below would go into full detail of the problems that these cultural group
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141 Maundaari Shirer 711 6\1\13 Personal Narrative My blatant lack of care for religion was entirely influenced by my cultural background. My nescient views were caused by a heated dispute between me and my parents. My experience growing up is and will be significantly altered by this moment in my life 2 years ago. My cultural background has an impact on my life growing up‚ as well as how I felt at the time and the significance of the event. The event was intense as it had
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My Cultural Background Alta Burwell Saint Leo University Abstract Being adopted‚ I will focus on my family that raised me. My adopted mother was very unique in the fact; she was in her sixties when she “obtained” me. Nothing about my adoption was legal. My whole childhood was rare and why I began questioning it around age 12. I was blessed and I was miserable while I worked through my childhood‚ family issues‚ school‚ and church
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things in my life make me‚ me. This cultural background paper is about the values‚ experiences‚ worldviews‚ and different identities that have shaped me throughout the years. It makes you think hard about the things you let into your life‚ or even the values you developed through your family or on your own. Unfortunately‚ there are things that influence our identity in a negative way and can overtake what we think about ourselves. Starting with my cultural background I am a daughter‚ sister‚ granddaughter
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