Family-family is primary because they play an impact role. It is from them that we have our ascribed status like being a sister‚ brother etc when we were already born. At a young age‚ they are fully dependable on their parents for protection and giving a safe environment to stay in for at least. And before the child can fully begin to start school‚ under the parents’ control‚ it is the job of the parent to teach values‚ beliefs and skills. How the child views the world depend on how the parents
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Culture diversity is defined as: the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world‚ a society‚ or an institution according to dictionary.com. I decided to research the African American culture because their culture interested me most. The structure in African American families is often an extended family with non-related “family” members. The family is typically matriarchal because African American families are far more likely become single parent’s households. Grandparents are
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Education difference between East Asian and American One of the phenomenon I experienced and observed a lot is East Asian students‚ comparingly‚ speak less in class than American students. More precisely‚ the students impacted by western education is more talkative (in a class discussion) than the students learned under East Asian education system. Besides the language issue‚ I am more interested in the foundation of different that drove behind this phenomenon. And I believe this is a good example
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Air pollution Are you satisfied with the air that you breathe today? Do you know how many people suffer from the air pollution? Air pollution‚ which is harmful to the health or could cause damage to plants and materials‚ contains gases‚ dust‚ fumes. When pollution occurs in the air‚ it can easily travel and spread‚ and because we breathe in air‚ people are not able to easily avoid it. There are three effects of air pollution‚ which are acidification‚ health effects and global warming. The first
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something criminologists yearn to explain. Some criminologists have thought that gender plays an important role in determining rather a juvenile will offend or not. Some even think female offenders are treated differently than male offenders. Others think family is the key behind why juveniles learn to offend. The reasoning criminologists have for these beliefs is something that does make sense. Gender is something we have always used to explain bad behavior and good behavior. It has always been assumed
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The ideal family from the American perspective has traditionally been known as the nuclear family by sociologists. The nuclear family‚ consisting of a married couple and their unmarried children‚ materialized as a romantic ideal as the Industrial Revolution transformed the United States into a country where families didn’t have to depend on many children and extended families for help on a farm or financial stability and families got smaller. Wealthier families could afford to have a home for themselves
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second-generation Asian women were exposed to American values since an early age. Nevertheless‚ they were detested and oppressed by the American society. They were facing a major identity crisis because they were in between the need to fulfill their parents’ expectations and the inclination to be in an American culture (Fan 79). In an Asian family‚ the tradition is to value elders and other members above one’s own individual self. Especially in patriarchal Asian communities‚ family is defined
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fine line between being conservative Indian - those of Ivy League chemical engineering PhD ’s‚ of having no less than 50 cousins‚ of spending every spare moment in life with family - and being a Westerner‚ coolly expressing my ever-apparent condescending attitude towards those of the East‚ looking in disgust at the seemingly uncouth Indian parents who smooch their children at every chance. I have been on this line my whole life‚ torn between two cultures - the Indian‚ and the American. The main differences
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what to do with my life‚ but I want to make my own decisions. The Asian Indian family creates an interdependent group of people whose concerns are not for themselves as individuals‚ but for the family as a whole. For example‚ parents are seen as having more experience with marriage‚ so they are the ones who choose a marriage partner for their children. (Das‚ Ajit and Kemp‚ S.(1997) Between two worlds: counseling South Asian Americans. Journal of multicultural counseling and development.vol.25‚ no
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Family is Irrelevant: Disagree Family is something that no one gets to choose‚ and no one can change. The best thing to do is be flexible and be able to take what they say and change it for your better understan express their rebellion. In the novels‚ Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger we get to experience growing up though the eyes of Holden Caulfield a sixteen year old. Whether it means wearing a raccoon tailed hat or ordering a prostitute Holden enjoys drawing attention to himself. He comes
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