cultures. Some cultures discriminate and abuse people with disabilities and isolate them from the world because they feel ashamed from them. Therefore‚ culture is a phenomena that control our thoughts and values to some extent. By completing the cultural value worksheet‚ I noticed that my value dimension fall under present‚ task‚ formal‚ modify‚ flexible rules‚
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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
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Beyond Cultural Competence Context: A talk on training teachers and students that goes beyond cultural competence and intercultural dialogue to avoid work friction and bullying at schools. It is without a doubt that we are now living in and as a global society. With just a look to our left and right‚ we can confirm this fact. Living globally also means the accumulation of more differences amongst us in the society. These differences can be regarding race‚ ethnicity‚ culture‚ traditions‚ sexuality
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Breaching Norms: Personal Space Informal cultural norms play an important role when interacting with the public. “They let us know how to behave around each other and how to feel comfortable in our community” (OpenStax College 2015:63). Personal space is one of the many informal cultural norms most people within our society conform to. To test this norm‚ I went to a popular mall where people from all walks of life can be found and imposed on the personal space of other shoppers. Most people feel
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Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood What is a Mother? The typical American family as a whole falls under a wide range of descriptions. Families do not always come with two biological parents and biological siblings. Some are blended or are a single-parent household. The age of the mother at the time of birth also plays a role in her nurturing skills and the way she cares for the child. The mother in the typical American household plays a significant role in nurturing‚ guidance and family growth
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Seth Phelps Cultural Self Portraits 2/7/15 For my cultural self portrait I decided to use the traits and surroundings from the Maori tribe in New Zealand. The Maori tribe has very interesting clothing‚ hairstyles‚ and body adornments. Clothing‚ adornments and even hairstyles showed a lot about a person’s status‚ and fine clothes could enhance a person’s’ power and or authority. Traditionally‚ Māori made their clothes and adornments from
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concerning ethics. Emerging from the point that both of their works can be classified as examples of virtue ethics and building upon the numerous areas of convergence between them too it is clear that both Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics can be discussed in terms with each other and are not exclusionary of the ideas or concepts‚ nor the internal workings‚ of the other. With this‚ then‚ two very different cultural and historical contexts are shown to be able to give rise to ethical systems which
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Dr. Barbara Wilson’s view on virtue ethics is that one’s “moral actions are guided by positive inner traits (virtues)‚ which rightly inform and guide a person’s behavior” (131). One should just be a good person and not look for a set of rules to follow in order to be a good person. Dr. Wilson’s “who you are an important as what you do” (132)‚ is a statement I agree with because‚ one should not do what they think is right for sake of the results of such. Living life just trying to be a good person
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your respect you work harder to have that same respect returned to you. I think this is very true among teachers and their students. If a teacher sits and yells at the kids‚ that is not showing them respect. I think that respect is taught by example‚ as most good things are. The main thing is to treat other people how you would like to be treated. Most people‚ when treated decently will treat others the same way. I think that respect is hard to give when someone does not give it back to
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Joshua Frans Mrs. Crawbuck Sophomore English 26 September‚ 2016 Cultural Narrative When I was five‚ I just moved into a new elementary school after kindergarten. I was the youngest in my whole class‚ and I was one of a few Indian students in that class. My height and my brain set me apart from the other students. I was very good at math and I had a general knowledge of select things that weren’t necessary for first grade. I also loved to read‚ and I was already reading books that were made for kids
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