Melting Pot Culture Analysis
I am from an intercultural and interracial family; according to ancestry.com DNA I am Cameroon/Congo 29%, Ivory Coast/Ghana 21%, and Ireland 20%. Culturally I identify with the American culture and the African American subculture of North America as referenced in our text African American culture differs from African culture. I will discuss my current cultural perspective as it pertains to communication.
When I grew up in Buffalo, New York my family practiced Catholicism, we attended the local African American Catholic church and school this was not the norm in the African american community. Most African Americans in my community practiced religions from their southern roots, most African Americans were baptist or Pentecostals at the time. My family was a second generation immigrant …show more content…
On my father's side of Barbados where slavery began in the 1640’s, until a slave revolt in 1816 and the British Empire abolished slavery in 1834. Barbados still did not gain independence from the British Empire until November 30, 1966. On my mother's side slavery in America was not abolished until 1865 by the addition of the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution. The dominant culture in America consists of the morays of the European culture. The African American culture has been and still is striving for participation and inclusion in the American “Melting Pot” culture. I think that the European culture and the African American subculture have had an effect on each other since the beginning of slavery. Paul Friedlander wrote in his book Rock and Roll: A Social History, the way music styles of the Europeans and African gave birth to Rock and Roll and modern shared culture. When you look at how both cultures interacted starting from slavery, meshing music, art, technology and dance styles are bringing us to the current culture we share as Americans
When I grew up in Buffalo, New York my family practiced Catholicism, we attended the local African American Catholic church and school this was not the norm in the African american community. Most African Americans in my community practiced religions from their southern roots, most African Americans were baptist or Pentecostals at the time. My family was a second generation immigrant …show more content…
On my father's side of Barbados where slavery began in the 1640’s, until a slave revolt in 1816 and the British Empire abolished slavery in 1834. Barbados still did not gain independence from the British Empire until November 30, 1966. On my mother's side slavery in America was not abolished until 1865 by the addition of the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution. The dominant culture in America consists of the morays of the European culture. The African American culture has been and still is striving for participation and inclusion in the American “Melting Pot” culture. I think that the European culture and the African American subculture have had an effect on each other since the beginning of slavery. Paul Friedlander wrote in his book Rock and Roll: A Social History, the way music styles of the Europeans and African gave birth to Rock and Roll and modern shared culture. When you look at how both cultures interacted starting from slavery, meshing music, art, technology and dance styles are bringing us to the current culture we share as Americans