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    The topic of the Native American Indians has been shallowly dove into within most History classes at some point or another. Although‚ due to the set criteria that schools have to follow there is often not enough time to fully divulge into the subject. Indian culture differs immensely from that of the American culture. Also‚ their beliefs‚ in topics across the board‚ are far different from modern American beliefs. Native American Indians‚ a resilient group of individuals who have persevered through

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    October 2014 Different Country‚ Different Culture A country is just like an onion; the innermost skin is Culture. Culture is like the soul of a country. All countries have their own unique cultures to live by‚ which means that people who have grown up in different places will have different ways of behaving‚ different ways of thinking about things and different ways of expressing themselves. Each country has its own culture‚ and there are many differences between different countries in culture. Those differences

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    The two sides of colonization in America Like a coin‚ the colonization of America has two sides. One good‚ one bad and in this essay we will go through the consequences and dilemmas of the matter. When the European colonialists arrived in America‚ they encountered natives of different cultures and instead of being cooperative‚ they began to pillage‚ steal from and massacre the natives that led to wars. Diseases brought by the Europeans killed approximately 90% of the Native American population. Land

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    American Imperialism and the Colonization of the Philippines The irony of the 1898 Spanish-American war was that Americans fought partly to aid Cubans in the fight for Cuban sovereignty‚ and the United States ended up colonizing some territories they won from Spain‚ like the Philippines. Despite America’s previous claims of only supporting independence and democracy‚ the United States became an imperialist power and colonized the Philippines (Introduction to the Spanish-American war and the

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    determine if this theory relates to the Indian American ethnic group. The flourishing geopolitical relationship between the United States and India‚ combined with an atmosphere of increasing competitiveness among the international community in regards to technological advancement and innovation led to the mass distribution of H-1B visas to Indians (Pew 2012‚ 27). This paper will ascertain whether or not the mass distribution of work and student visas to Indians directly affected the strikingly rapid

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    DIFFERENT CULTURESDIFFERENT RATIONALITIES? Peter Winch ’s remarkable essay‚ ’Understanding a Primitive Society ’ (Winch‚ 1964) raised several deep and troubling questions and offered some no less deep and troubling answers. It was the essay of a philosopher inspired by Wittgenstein‚ who had questioned the very idea of a social science‚ reflecting upon and‚ indeed‚ criticizing the interpretation of witchcraft in one of the classics of twentieth-century anthropology‚ Evans-Pritchard ’s Witchcraft

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    them. the indians didn’t like to rely on meat because eventually they would go extinct so they stored them until they needed to really eat them. they also had liked to collect piñon nuts. these people had beed able to adapt to these types of environments. these type of people were hunters as well as gathers‚ there were all a mix of different tribes so a total of 90 different spoken languages they all had different dialects. there was not another type of culture that had such a different variety of

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    Exploitation of Indian Culture Nora Naranjo-Morse’s poem‚ “Mud Woman’s First Encounter with the World of Money and Business” portrays the internal struggle of Mud Woman‚ a contemporary Native Indian woman attempting to balance the traditions and ideals of her native culture with the outside consumer culture. When Mud Woman sells her art to a outside gallery owner‚ she comes to a realization that she may be exacerbating the commercialization and exploitation of her own Pueblo culture. The poem

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    StudentB Essay 1 ‚ Multicultural literature Prof. Chris Patterson March 23‚ 2014 American Indians and Freedom American Indians have striven for freedom ceaselessly since the colonization in 1800s. But for different American Indians‚ the definitions of freedom vary a lot. For the chief Seattle‚ the writer of AUTHENTIC TEXT OF CHIEF SEATTLE’S TREATY ORATION 1854‚ the freedom means the rights to live with the nature harmoniously and to keep their religion and traditions. For Carlos Montezuma‚

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    society through increased hospitalizations and complications. The following cultural patterns may represent many American Indians‚ but do not represent all people in a community. According to the University of California School of Nursing‚ in Culture and Clinical Care‚ many aspects of Indian culture today reflect the culture of the general US population. The American Indian concept of family includes immediate and extended family members‚ as well as community and tribal members. Women are

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