101 Characteristics of Americans/American Culture To help you compare and contrast what you observe of American culture and your own‚ mark the similarities and differences between your culture and what you have read about in this book. 1. America is enormous: the third largest country in the world with a population of more than 300 million people. 2. Americans come in all colors‚ have all types of religions‚ and speak many languages from all over the world. 3. Americans are extremely independent
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. In their essays‚ they explain that having the capability to speak proper English and assimilating themselves to American customs. Although there were many obstacles and challenges faced when adapting to America‚ they did not dismiss their true heritage and culture. This defines a thriving immigrant‚ which is one that is able to fuse their own culture background with American culture‚ allowing two worlds to mesh into one. Agosín explains her life growing up in Chile and moving to America as a difficult path
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very strange because she had to adapt to the weird American ways. Sundara was the only darker skinned in her school it was hard for her to fit in. From going to America from Cambodia it was a very big change a cultural change. Imagine you coming from a different country and not knowing the language and their culture. Sundara is raised very culturally different then the American ways. Like Sundara won’t talk back to her elders unlike the Americans in her class where talking back and have a discussion
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It is a massive creation that is as undirected as it is purposeful. Rarely is it a conscious construct. There have been attempts to create new societies‚ of course‚ such as our own American Revolution‚ Puritanism‚ Jonestown‚ and Salt Lake City‚ to name a few. Nazism and Communism were also attempts to create new societies. But cultures are not fashioned by conscious minds. The traditions and ancient values‚ the language and symbols
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a not an easy task. However‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan does a wonderful job of making the Chinese culture comprehensible for the American reader. With a culture that is exceedingly different from American way of life‚ Tan presents both cultures side by side in order to draw attention to their differences and benefits. She acknowledges the materialistic American mind that is focused on the present and contrasts it with the Chinese mindset‚ which focuses on the past and future. After presenting
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tenements‚ or the limitations of being an immigrant life was difficult for the immigrants. Many Americans were oblivious to the conditions that the immigrants had dealt with until the publishing of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. How the Other Half Lives was a book that documented the hardships that immigrants faced living in American cities through pictures and observations. Riis gave Americans an opportunity to see what life was really like for an immigrant in living in America. In How the
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Choi Kyoungsook Final essay The Best Way to Serve Kimchi These days many people know kimchi is one of the healthist food in the world. We could find kimchi most of supermarkets around the world. Although people know it‚ still many people do not know how to serve kimchi well. So‚ I would like to introduce the best way to serve kimchi as Koreans do. Firstly‚ the typical way to serve kimchi is with steamed rice‚ rameyon and BBQ meats. Kimchi is the essential side dish when Korean have meal. It
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expose his own American culture to their egocentrism‚ vanity‚ and narcissistic views that are presented throughout his article. He makes this apparent when saying; “There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat. Still other rites are used to make women’s breasts larger if they are small and smaller if they are large.” Most every task is portrayed individualistically as to show how self-engaged the Nacirema are. Miner is very cleaver in the way in which
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Human beings have always been dirty‚ corrupt‚ deceitful and horrible. But humans also have some redeeming factors that account for our current state of relative peace‚ our ability to innovate‚ the ability for great kindness and to care for other living things. All because each individual person is as different as the last with their own unique experiences and morals and standards that accumulate to our own incredibly different personalities and attitudes. Yet there are those who believe that striping
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19 December 2012 FEAR; Something Everyone Shares A common feeling‚ that is easily influenced and yet; every time a person goes through that sensation it is unwanted‚ it is fear. Arthur Miller‚ an American playwright and essayist‚ wrote his play “The Crucible” in an attempt to exemplify the paranoia felt by society due to accusations that cause lack of trust‚ unmoral behavior and most certainly fear. In addition to the witch hunts‚ there was also McCarthyism as well as the Boston desegregation
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