According to Hofstede‚ culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others (Hofstede and Hofstede‚ 2005‚ 4). However‚ human beings are not programmed same way as the computers are‚ they have reflective ability and may deviate based on unforeseen event. More so‚ culture has strong impact on the way a person act on certain situation. Between 1994 and 2005 over half the U.S. work force was made up of minorities. Currently‚ one
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Religious specialists are very important to their community. African communities‚ like many others‚ have seasonal festivals‚ perform rites of passage‚ and communicate with the unseen world. In order for the communities to perform such events‚ they must have religious specialists. A religious specialist‚ either men or women‚ ranks above ordinary humans. They each have a vital force and knowledge‚ that gives them the ability to mediate between society and the invisible world. The goal of all religious
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The indigenous people of the Arctic had a culture that was in many ways very different from that of the people of the Great Plains. Their living styles were also very different to the rest of Indigenous people of the Americas. The Arctic people where known as Inuits and Aleuts. They had to adapt to the harsh Arctic environment‚ and they obtained most of their food by hunting‚ trapping‚ and also fishing. Living in icy tundras‚ the Inuit people were unable to use agriculture for sustaining food. Therefore
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assigned particular gender roles. It is common in American culture that if you are a boy‚ you are automatically assumed to like the color blue and play with trucks and such. If you are born a girl‚ you are also assumed to like the color pink and play with dolls. Those gender roles shape the behavior of children at a young age. Role learning starts at birth and continues as a child is introduced to socialization in society. The way a child is dressed‚ and the way you are expressing yourself‚ puts one in a
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American Culture In this essay I will be discussing what “defines” American culture through the eyes of other. I will be using the definitions of the people I interviewed over the last few days. I will also be using the lesson material and the readings that were assigned to us. This essay will hopefully give a different perspective to your thoughts of American culture. There are millions of different takes on what American culture is to each person in this country‚ this will just be a small take
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Increasing globalization requires more interaction among people from diverse cultures‚ beliefs‚ and backgrounds than ever before. People no longer live and work in an insular marketplace; they are now part of a worldwide economy with competition coming from nearly every continent. For this reason‚ organizations need diversity to become more creative and open to change. Therefore maximizing and capitalizing on workplace diversity has become an important issue for management today. Since managing diversity
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Arizona Material Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics of three groups of peoples: Native Americans‚ colonists‚ and West Africans. Native Americans Northern Colonists Mid-Atlantic Colonists Southern Colonists West Africans Economic Structure The Economic Structure of the Native Americans were the trading of food‚ weapons‚ Traveling Items Routs‚ and the trading of jewelry. After the Europeans has settle with the Native Americans in the early seventeen and
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contingent. The meaning of this is that something that might be true about gender roles in one society’s cultural group might be different when it comes to another cultural group. Likewise‚ gender roles in all over the world have significantly changed over time. Therefore‚ there is no generalizable and universal statement regarding gender roles. The common thread in the discussion about gender roles has been the historical evolution of the family‚ from a time where families were single-income families‚ which
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African American religious music is the foundation of all contemporary forms of so called "black music." African American religious music has been a fundamental part of the black experience in this country. This common staple of the African American experience can be traced back to the cruel system of slavery. It then evolved into what we refer to today as gospel music. The goal of this paper is to answer three main questions. What are the origins of African American religious music? How did
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II 30 September 2013 American culture is unlike any other in the world. There are many things that make our culture so unique and diverse. From historic events to the very way the United States was started‚ American culture has changed many times throughout its existence‚ and it keeps changing every day. One of the reasons why our culture is so unique is that it has been influenced by every single other culture in our planet. The United States is one of the most diverse
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