Cultural Diversity In America

Cultural Diversity Throughout our world there is a wide variety of different cultures. Each and every culture has their own spin on how certain situations are handled, for example; Greeting one another, eye contact, openness to outsiders, etc. In a country such as the United States, we live in such a culturally diverse country, but yet, many of us no very little or nothing about cultures other than our own. Often times we know nothing about our own culture because culture isn’t really thought about by most of us. My family is a mixture of Italian, Polish, and German, though we do not really identify with any of those culturally, to be the least bit generous we have a little spin off of Italian culturally but not very much. Culturally I
But it’s when you go and enter other cultures boundaries that you feel different. With having a half Latino cousin, I have often been around the Puerto Rican culture for most of my life. Recently I took a look at another Latino culture, the Mexican culture. My friends and I went to a friend’s sibling’s birthday party. Upon entry since we are already known by the main family (my friends family) we were welcomed, we were slightly introduced to some immediate family, eye contact is made during the introduction and usually a handshake is involved. I noticed when family members greet each other a hug or sometimes a kiss on the cheek is used as a hello then small talk is often followed. In comparison I feel the American culture dresses up a little more casually for party situations than the Latino culture, but where they lack dressing up, they make up with having a little more fun. Where my family at a party most of the time we sit around the table and talk and eat, they eat, everyone helps pitch in on the cooking, and they like to play games and drink (they also tend to be more lenient on the drinking age). Their parties tend to be a bit larger though I have tended to notice that Latinos often times have larger families than any other culture I have experienced. I will be able to use this information in the future to know how to greet others of
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|Dress and appearance | | |
|Is it appropriate to wear hats indoors? |No |No |
|If you had to dress up, what type of clothing would you wear? |Dress clothes, slacks, button down, polo, etc. | |
|What type of event (if any) requires you to dress up? |Parties, funerals, weddings |