American & Iranian Cultural Differences Student Name ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor Name Date Introductory Why do some cultures treat women with the up most respect and others as if they were lower than life itself? Growing up in earlier years the only examples we as American’s had was just by what we were told. In today’s world we are able to communicate better and see more of how the cultures are in other countries. In America all are treated with equal
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Hutu some rule in the government‚ Belgium left the Hutu with authority. Juvenal Habyarimana (Hutu) was elected as president of Rwanda. In 1990‚ the Tutsi living Rwanda known as the Patriotic Front raided Rwanda creating a civil war. To promote peace between the two ethnic groups‚ the Rwandan president‚ Juvenal and the Patriotic Front decided to sign a peace treaty. After signing the peace treaty on the way back to Rwanda from Uganda‚ the president’s plane was shot down by who was thought to be the Tutsi
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Tyler Copier Autoethnography Com. 3190 Differences in the American and Ecuadorian Culture Culture makes up who we are‚ what we believe and how we behave. About four years ago‚ I had the opportunity to live in Ecuador. I found the relationships and communication perspective to be very interesting and after spending two years there‚ I was able to notice several distinct intercultural differences between the American and Ecuadorian cultures. Since my analysis of Ecuador is only based
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to more popular folk and native genres. Spanish‚ Native American and African are the three main sources of the cultural groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some examples of these different cultures are Colombian‚ Puerto Rican‚ and Brazilian. For Colombian culture‚ the music’s diversity is intimately linked to its many distinct regional differences. Some examples of these regional differences are; Vallenato which is a type of Colombian music and dance‚ originated on the Atlantic coast and Currulao
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Many factors play into being American. An American doesn’t have to know the language perfectly or eat the typical “American food”‚ everyone that lives in America should have the same rights‚ freedoms‚ and opportunities. An American identity is created by adapting the techniques of life and how to do things. You don’t need to look the same or even sound the same‚ each American is different in their own way. There is not a description of a perfect “American Citizen”. America is a big “melting pot”
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Some of the world’s strongest speakers came from the African-American community such as Frederick Douglass‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Jessie Jackson. Although their oral tradition is “widely recognized” in educational literature‚ people describe African-American youth as verbally deprived or linguistically retarded. Some African-Americans do not sound the same as to Anglo-Americans when they speak. When people from different cultures come together‚ the cultures mix and adapt. However‚ when certain
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The Native Puerto Ricans are also known as the Taino people. The Taino people are very peaceful and ended up greeting Columbus with open arms and showing him the river where they had their most prize possession‚ there gold nuggets. It began in the XV Century but was then rediscovered by Christopher Columbus both the people and their land. These particular people spoke the language of Arawakan and they came from South America where they lived in small villages. They lived in villages that had chiefs
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similarities and differences to that of previous American expansionist ideals. In both cases of American expansionism‚ the Americans believed that we must expand our borders in order to keep the country running upright. Also‚ the Americans believed that the United State‚ being one of the strongest of the nations‚ had a need to become even stronger. This is shown in the "manifest destiny" of the 1840’s. Apart from the similarities‚ there were also several differences that included the American attempt to
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The two-minority group that will be discuss 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
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Chinese and American Cultural Differences There are many differences in eastern and western culture. Eastern and western cultures have different views on the way an individual views him or herself. The types of friendships and relationships individuals have with others. Family life including how many children each culture has. How each culture views oneself and differ will be examined. Americans are taught from a young age to be individualists. American individuals are often
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