The American Culture (At a Glance) Starting Question • What is in the Filipino culture that is unique and different from other countries/cultures? • What is your impression of America? • What do you know about the American culture? United States • Known as the “melting pot” – Academics = “salad bowl” (cultural diversity) – Immigrations = Ireland‚ Germany‚ Poland‚ Italy‚ and Western Africa • Four races = Native American or American Indian‚ African American‚ Asian and White Graph Flag • Stars
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“Without the Arts‚ we have no culture‚ history or identity.” Do you agree? Illustrate your answer with relevant examples. We are living in a world which is full of creativity‚ because humans survive by solving problems‚ and require creativity. We are living the world which is full of expression and communication‚ because that are human nature. Arts exist in the world and it is expression‚ is a particular kind of communication. Through it‚ we express feelings and ideas‚ pose questions‚ articulate
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entertainment that could be viewed by all‚ no vulgarity • Movies: five cents o Films mixed with live acts‚ broadened nighttime environment (attended by unescorted women‚ creating unsupervised encounters b/w men and women) • Started consumer culture- break down Victorian gender • Mixed audience represented experience of urban life (black/white‚ men/women) Exciting‚ instability‚ city new visual experience • Lone Tenement (George Bellows) o Wanted to facec the ugly in city as well as beautiful
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I. ABOUT KFC Colonel Harland Sanders was the owner of KFC‚ he opened his first restaurant in 1930 in the small front room of a gas station in Corbin‚ Kentucky. KFC (whose name was originally an acronym for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ United States (US). Original Recipe‚ Extra Crispy‚ Kentucky Grilled Chicken and Extra Crispy Strips with home-style sides‚ Hot Wings and freshly made chicken
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them feel like they have to change their whole persona and behave a certain way in order to qualify to work in my company. I understand that in order to keep tradition alive people have to practice them and we would not be doing a favor to a local culture if we interfered in it. 2. I think that globalization is partly responsible for the increasing incidence of divorce‚ crime‚ and drug abuse in Asia. Is safe to assume that those problems existed in Asia way before the current movement of globalization
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American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements‚ scientific and religious competitiveness‚ political structures‚ risk taking and free expression‚ materialist and moral elements. Despite certain consistent ideological principles (e.g. individualism‚ egalitarianism‚ and faith in freedom and democracy)‚ American culture has a variety of expressions due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity. It also includes elements that evolved from Indigenous Americans‚ and other ethnic
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Relationships Between Native Americans and European Explorers/Settlers The indigenous Native Americans and the European explorers of the 16th and 17th century were two very different and distinct groups of people. The Native Americans were usually peaceful until threatened. Although they did not have much technology‚ they knew the land well and used their resources very efficiently. On the other hand‚ the European settlers‚ though more advanced as a civilization‚ proved a bit more violent
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The meeting of two strong cultures in Australia is a time which is said to have been one of the most difficult and inharmonious in history. The meeting of the Aboriginals‚ the indigenous people of Australia‚ who had been inhabitants of Australia for at least 50‚000 years‚ and the first European settlers‚ who are said to first have settled around 200 years ago. When and how the Aboriginal people came to Australia is an on-going debate and there is such speculation that we cannot know definitively
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Explain the idea of myth and show how it is helpful to explain any American cultural form. Culture shapes the way we think. It is the society’s system of shared‚ learned values and norms; these are the society’s design for living. It has an influence on the way we look‚ our habits‚ our tastes and the way we relate to others. Values are an abstract of ideas which are about the good‚ the right and the desirable. Norms are the social rules and guidelines. The definition of myth is a “popular belief
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Chinese culture and Western culture‚ an interesting comparison. East is east and West is west; never the twain shall meet. This one line pretty much sums up this never ending debate on the differences between the Chinese culture and the Western culture. Many westerners‚ when they visit China for the first time are in fact shocked to see the customs and traditions in China. But the same holds true for the people of China who go to western countries for the first time. What is to be remembered is the
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