Cultural Synthesis Essay Examples
Michael Leek
Period 3
Cultural Synthesis Essay
“They come in and they profile me and say that I’m not who I am,” said Deshawn Currie, a black teen, after being accused of theft and being pepper sprayed by a bunch of cops in his white foster parent’s home. This incident shows that our culture and race still affects the way that we view others. Black people are still being accused of crime when they are really innocent, and they are still being racially profiled by white people. There is a difference between seeing people as a different color or race, and racially profiling people as people who aren’t as good as you. This is still a big problem in our society and it is definitely something that affects some people’s lives in a negative …show more content…
Whether it’s race, whether it’s color, whether it’s heritage, whether it’s religion, or whether it’s simply gender, there is always somebody or some …show more content…
Heritage really does play a big part in the way that we view others whether it’s because of their religion or because of their nationality. Different people grow up following certain practices and ways of life and other people are definitely guilty of judging and thinking bad things about people who live this way. In the article An Indian Father’s Plea, the father of an Indian child going to an American school says to his sons teacher, “He is five years old, in kindergarten, and I can’t understand why you have already labeled him as a slow learner”(1). The child, Wind-Wolf, practices Indian culture and is trying to adapt to a new way of learning in a different culture than his own. The teacher just assumes that he is a slow learner just because he isn’t picking up the new culture very fast. This is Wind-Wolf’s heritage and it’s the way that he grew up and the way he has lived his whole life. At school, people are teased and mocked for the things they practice just because it is different than how they live. Religion is also a part of one’s heritage that people look at as different. People with different religions practice certain clothing styles, different ways of praying, and different kinds of churches. All of these things affect the way others view them, whether people think it’s weird or whether it’s cool. I’ve even seen instance where people are getting mocked and yelled at for being open
Period 3
Cultural Synthesis Essay
“They come in and they profile me and say that I’m not who I am,” said Deshawn Currie, a black teen, after being accused of theft and being pepper sprayed by a bunch of cops in his white foster parent’s home. This incident shows that our culture and race still affects the way that we view others. Black people are still being accused of crime when they are really innocent, and they are still being racially profiled by white people. There is a difference between seeing people as a different color or race, and racially profiling people as people who aren’t as good as you. This is still a big problem in our society and it is definitely something that affects some people’s lives in a negative …show more content…
Whether it’s race, whether it’s color, whether it’s heritage, whether it’s religion, or whether it’s simply gender, there is always somebody or some …show more content…
Heritage really does play a big part in the way that we view others whether it’s because of their religion or because of their nationality. Different people grow up following certain practices and ways of life and other people are definitely guilty of judging and thinking bad things about people who live this way. In the article An Indian Father’s Plea, the father of an Indian child going to an American school says to his sons teacher, “He is five years old, in kindergarten, and I can’t understand why you have already labeled him as a slow learner”(1). The child, Wind-Wolf, practices Indian culture and is trying to adapt to a new way of learning in a different culture than his own. The teacher just assumes that he is a slow learner just because he isn’t picking up the new culture very fast. This is Wind-Wolf’s heritage and it’s the way that he grew up and the way he has lived his whole life. At school, people are teased and mocked for the things they practice just because it is different than how they live. Religion is also a part of one’s heritage that people look at as different. People with different religions practice certain clothing styles, different ways of praying, and different kinds of churches. All of these things affect the way others view them, whether people think it’s weird or whether it’s cool. I’ve even seen instance where people are getting mocked and yelled at for being open