Culture shapes our character‚ personality‚ and behavior. The culture influence our concept of right and wrong‚ define what is appropriate and acceptable‚ and forge our moral‚ values‚ traditions‚ and beliefs. Imigration impacts the individual behavior based on the effect of culture in our behavior. When a person imigrate‚ the individual does not only expose itself to a different environment but to a different culture with its own set of rules and values. This change provoke an conflict caused by the
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The collision of cultures is seen through out the story of Lia and her family. Starting in the beginning of Lia’s story the same piece of information was being interpreted by two different cultures in different ways. The Merced Hospital Staff believed Lia suffered from Epilepsy. They believed it translated into Qaug dab peg. What was misunderstood is that quag dab peg were not really perceived as the same thing in Hmong culture as Epilepsy is in western medicine‚ In the Hmong culture‚ QDP is
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To begin with‚ Hmong ethnic groups originated from isolated mountain villages‚ and Thailand‚ Laos‚ Vietnam‚ China‚ and Myanmar. Next‚ the term Hmong stands for free people representing Maio race in southern China. The two largest subgroups in the United States and Southeast Asia specialized names such as the Hmong Leng and the Hmong Der. As matter of fact‚ their language consists of Tonal language and monosyllabic‚ plus the qeej‚ a mouth organ‚ is owned by most families and is often cited as the
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other Hmong families did and that was to avoid the assimilation they were faced with living in Laos. To the Hmong people their ethnicity is everything to them. "They did not come to America to save their lives‚ they came to save their selves that is their Hmong ethnicity" (p. 183). When Lia gets sick we start to see how this family’s values and beliefs are very different from that of the western culture. With her epilepsy we see a clash between medical science and beliefs held by the Hmong. Dan
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Hmong Culture - Food‚ Eating and Cooking Diverse Cultures in America - Soc 240 Upper Iowa University The Hmong people are originally from rural mountainous areas in Laos and they still inhabit that country to this day. Laos is a country that is located in Southeast Asia. Hmong people are divided into clans or tribes that share the same paternal ancestry. The Hmong people inhabited all parts of Laos but all carried pretty much the same cultures and livelihood with them as many immigrated to
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Culture collision plays a role in the world everyday in different situations. Culture collision is when two different cultures collide. When a person from a different country and culture move they have to adjust to whatever the culture of the place they moved to is. For example‚ immigrants moving from foreign countries to the United States have to change their whole life style to fit in with the culture of the U.S. They would have to get used to the life style of being an American such as learning
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Culture collisions has been both positive negative to those involved such as Columbus and his run in with the Natives Americans‚ French revolution and the Haitian slaves‚ and African Imperialism. In any culture‚ subculture‚ or family in which belief is valued above thought‚ and self-surrender is valued above self-expression‚ and conformity is valued above integrity‚ those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exception. In the culture collisions I learned about most was trying to
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Are You Down With Slang? The English language is one of the most diverse if not the most diverse language in the world. It is spoken in many countries and spoken with different dialects within those countries. Ranging from different pronunciations to completely different meanings for words. Flip-flops in America are known as thongs in Australia and tap in Britain is a faucet in America. Each country also has its own form of slang that other English speaking countries may not understand. Slang
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the king‚ and also to get rich.” In “The Collision of Cultures”‚ the authors explain the different perspectives of America. Long before the Columbian era‚ people did inhabit the Americas. Indian tribe settled in Mexico known as the Aztecs and Mayans; Further down‚ in South America‚ the vast Incan empire was located. These tribes were each had their own sophisticated society‚ with its own agriculture and trade. However‚ in North America‚ Native Americans were slightly different. They were located
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doubt that western developed countries often turn a blind eye to other regions and cultures in the world that are less developed. One such culture that has little recognition is the Hmong‚ a small tribe in the mountainous region of Laos. After the Vietnam War‚ the United States experienced a high number of immigrant refugees from Southeast Asia‚ including the Hmong. A clash of cultures occurred as the Hmong and Americans tried to live together in unity. Perhaps one of the greatest contrasts is the way
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