Culture is the arts and other creations of individual’s intellectual accomplishment regarding a lot of feelings‚ customs‚ and exercises. They say “never judge a book by its cover”‚ but your average person does it on a daily. People look at your appearance and try to say which culture you come from. On a daily basis‚ I have people come up to me and ask me am I Jamaican; and am shocked when I say no. The two cultures‚ I have chosen to compare and contrast are African Americans and Jamaicans. Both cultures
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The first page of the text Chemical Dependency by McNeece and DiNitto states that ethnicity and culture have been called the strongest determinants of drinking pattern in a society. The two ethnicities or cultures I chose to write about are Native Indian and African Americans. Native Indians: Native Indians have a very permissive attitude towards substance use. They have been accused of enabling alcoholics by paying for their bills‚ bailing them out of jail‚ and placing blame on others rather than
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this public conversation about African American student achievement‚ it will inevitable become a conversation that blames black parents‚ black students and the black community. The danger is that it will become yet another location for the recycling of the ideology of the African American moral‚ cultural and intellectual deficiency”(young gifted and black
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century with the cell phone‚ marking the turn of the expectations of technology (Sailus). Since then‚ the new generation developed with technology designed to be individualistic (Bump 2014). This exponential growth is aligned with the fast pace life Americans live today. Media has been no different. In order to maintain the fast pace of society‚ media has become commercialized and diluted‚ lacking substance and morality. This is important because this change in pace has impacted society in its entirety
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United States in 2010‚ I was teased for being African not by white students but by black Americans; they were always trying to play with my intelligence. Many African Americans are ignorant about African immigrants; they think we want to kill them so that we can eat them. I remember back in high school‚ a black student once asked me if I had seen a Lion or a Tiger. I told her‚ “Yes‚ we all lived together in our tree house.” In Africa‚ we admire the American struggle for civil rights‚ but when some of
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Soul food brings the sensation of love and pride that has been perfected over decades of African American Culture. It first emerged around 1619 when the first enslaved Africans arrive to Jamestown‚ Virginia. There‚ Soul food was able to provide enslaved Africans an identity and a sense of belonging among all the challenges and hardship that they had to endure. One of the many obstacles that slaves have to face is obtaining the right amount of nourishment for survival because often times slave masters
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Cuba’s culture is a complex mix of different‚ often contradictory factors and influences. The Cuban people and their customs are based on African‚ European and Native American influences. Cuba has a very interesting and rich culture. All these other countries influence the culture of Cuba. Cuba has a variety of different influences from other countries that are included in such things as music‚ dancing‚ food‚ history and sports. The music of Cuba has an enormous African and European influence. One
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commercial featuring basketball star Allen Iverson playing pool. The commercial is targeted to African Americans by the use of shared values and norms to the African American community. In the commercial‚ Iverson is wearing a hat sideways‚ jewelry‚ and baggy pants‚ all images that mean something to the black community. This type of clothing is a collective identity and behavior of other African Americans‚ a shared value. Furthermore‚ in the script‚ Iverson says‚ "I ain’t no thug. I am who I am " This
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of Africa‚ with its incredible diversity. According to Kwint Essential‚ South Africa is considered to be the most multicultural countries in the world‚ with many different ethnic groups making up the population. When one think of South Africa‚ African American race comes to mind. While doing research on this country‚ one can learn that colonialism and immigration have brought white Europeans‚ Indo-Malays‚ Indians‚ as well as Chinese and many others. Business etiquette is differently worldwide‚ which
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indiscrimination got to be side effects of decrease in family values and of good rot. Obviously‚ Northern dark characters conveyed these indecencies even further. (Toll 181) African-American individuals from Congress were one illustration‚ imagined as pawns of the Radical Republicans. By the 1890s‚ minstrelsy shaped just a little piece of American excitement. By the turn of the twentieth century‚ Blackface minstrelsy’s
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