a melting pot of cultures and in such‚ we see a wide variety of value systems at play. For our first Individual Work Worksheet‚ you will explore three values that you think are central to American culture. From there‚ let’s define ethnocentrism. Is it ethnocentric to be nationalistic? Finally‚ define cultural relativism. Are values culturally relative? Why/Why not? Please respond to all of the following prompts: 1. Explore three values that are central to American culture. What are the three
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When Your Patient is a Hmong Refugee‚ under the American Journal of Nursing‚ provides guidelines to the medical community in how to effectively understand Hmong patients. To understand this subject‚ author Betty Rairdan and Zana Rae Higg‚ conducted interviews with 13 families from five different clans‚ all refugee families and have resettled in Washington. The families‚ mentioned many similar ideas that were presented in The Spirit Catches You And You Fall. For instance‚ all families mentioned the
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History of the Two-Spirit Native American People Abstract Accounts of homosexual and cross-gender Native American individuals from before colonization have been documented and discussed. The term given to those who take up this role in the tribe is Berdache‚ or Two-Spirit. Often the male would take on the role of the female‚ yet it is not certain that all Two-Spirit tribe members were homosexual. However with the arrival of Europeans and the following colonization‚ the role of the Two-Sprit was
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it tends to be people’s ethnics and their traditions. Other cultures can widely affect your family’s not variety of ways. One person may be from another country and the other from another. Everyone will have different perspective cultural traditions that they will have to face. Some of them have to sacrifice themselves in order to save another person’s life. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Okonkwo is faced with a culture collision. He took it in a negative way and how he ends up re enacting
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“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything‚” by Andrew Steinburg. This is a well-known quote that has a lot of meaning. Values are something you should live by in life. Values set standards to help achieve goals. My five values that I cherish are God’s purpose‚ responsibility‚ education‚ honesty‚ and life. My values help me to guide me to believe my purposes here on earth. Also‚ I use my values in personal and professional world. Values should be something you truly believe in from
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Are You‚ the Best You? People everywhere are faced with the unanswered question‚ “When am I working too much?”‚ “When do I stop?” Due to the constant increase in our cost of living‚ people believe they are forced into working longer and more demanding hours. People need to learn how to split their time and energy between work and the other important aspects of their lives. In the two essays‚ “Hit the Brakes”‚ by Christopher Dewolf and “Stupid Jobs”‚ by Hal Neidzviecki‚ it is shown that spending
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What makes an American an American? Is it the accent‚ the clothing‚ the fact that you can speak the English language‚ or is it the fact that you were born on American soil? I believe it’s certain characteristics that set us apart from other countries. The fact we are self-reliant‚ and competitive‚ and the compassion we bring to others are some‚ of many‚ American characteristics that help set us apart. These are the three characteristics that I have chosen to write about. Our self-reliance
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“The American Dream” The American dream‚ isn’t this what everyone is chasing? Isn’t this why people work so hard and go to extreme lengths just to achieve this “Dream”? Owning a home‚ having a family‚ and basically living care free is the “dream” that is projected‚ but is this goal that so many people are told to strive for even obtainable? There is a belief that once this goal is achieve all the troubles will some how fly out the window‚ but sadly that isn’t true. The American dream itself
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dimension that U.S. American culture is measured by is the level of individualism. This dimension addresses “the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members” (Hofstede‚ 2003‚ p.1). The United States scored extremely high in this dimension‚ making it one of the most individualistic cultures in the world. This score suggests U.S. Americans are self-centered‚ looking out for their own personal interests before the interests of the group. In all areas of U.S. American culture there is a strong
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EA 3.2 Literary Analysis: character analysis In the story of “Things Fall Apart “ there are so many cultural collisions but one person I would consider having a worse experience of it is okonkwo. In “Things Fall Apart” okonkwo goes through tough things like one is a death. Okonkwo loses men to Cristian’s and does not like it. He loses his role of being chief of his clan. There are many cultural differences in this story yes it is hard for each character but the one that I believe had experienced
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