I was concerned about how this interview was going to go. I think that a clear majority of people are open to talking about more sensitive topics, but there are some people who are less comfortable about being open. Luckily, Beth was an open book and we had a great discussion. I think that when we were interviewing one another, we both just asked and answered questions without judgement. There was not one moment where I felt that either one of us were uncomfortable, it felt more like a casual discussion geared at learning more about one another, there was no judgement. As the conversation went on, I could feel that we both had a feeling of being closer and more open with one another, which was very cool! It is sad to me that people...show more content...
On both sides of my family education was very important and college was a necessity. When I was born, my family was already in theupper middle class, and has continued to push forward. Another reason why my family could economically accel is because we are very conservative with our money. While my family resides in the uppermiddle class, we live closer to the middle of middle class, which I think is quite healthy. We never take vacations, all our vehicles are used, we fix things instead of purchasing new things. Along with my family being conservative with their money, I would say that we are overall conservative. However, many of my thoughts and ideas differ from my direct family. I find it important to be fact driver, rational, and logical. Therefore, I do not practice any religion, I would closest identity to being a Panthiest, or Agnostic. While I do not practice a religion, I think spirituality and exploring what you think and value is of the utmost
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Cultural Assimilation Paper
The United States is host to a variety of different cultures from around the globe. However, while many remain authentic to their foreign heritage evidence of cultural assimilation are everywhere. An example of this assimilation can be found at the eatery The Silk Road Restaurant; genuine Afghanistan cuisine. Where despite the authentic food and afghan inspired interior, still remains guilty of trading in many of the social norms that are customary when eating afghan cuisine. This cultural disconnect can also be seen in the restaurants cliental as their cultural connection varied greatly.
One of the groups that stood out was a table consisting of a man and woman in their mid–thirties, and another man and woman who were both senior citizens. The group all shared an olive skin tone hinting at a middle eastern heritage. The fashion worn within the group were contemporary variations of dress shirts, sweaters, jeans, and slacks. Additionally, the two women wore a scarf that...show more content... To elaborate the tagline of the restaurant "authentic Afghanistan cuisine" says a lot about the cliental, many of the customers entering are unaware of the Afghanistan eating customs and are just fans of the authentic food. This adheres to Sociologist Militant Gordon's first stage of assimilation known as cultural assimilation where cultural patterns are changed in order to appeal to the host society. This emphasizes a one sided view of assimilation found in the U.S known as Anglo–Conformity where assimilation in the U.S is designed to maintain the dominance of the English langue and its customs (Healy, 2008). Some of the customs left out were having guest sit on cushions, eating communally from the same dish, and eating with one's hands. Instead the group sat in chairs, used silverware, and ate their own
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Cultural Assimilation
The late 1800's into the 1900's were the most difficult years for Native American Indians, they fought difficult battles to protect their land. Many rules and laws did not support them and focused mainly on kicking them out of their own county, due to that many violent, bloody and crucial fights and wars begun. The Native American Indians were forced to leave their own land. Eventually, many of them accepted and adapted the new cultures of the European–American's and accepted their religions as well. Assimilation is the ability to process and accept a different culture and become part of it by being loyal and faithful to this new culture. There are many factors that might help individuals in assimilation into a different culture. One is misunderstanding non–verbal signs and symbols, which means lack of understanding of a group of signs and symbols, which the society of that new culture understands, while the other factor is tending to evaluate to the new culture, which means having the ability to accept a new culture and leave their native culture in the past (P16).Knowing and understanding the culture may have a direct influence on the individual in accepting and falling in love with this new culture , whereas the lack of information about this new society may lead in not respecting this new culture. In "The School Days of an Indian Girl" was written by Zitkala–Sa who was a Native American who was forced by the European–Americans to study at a missionary school in
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Cultural Assimilation
With globalization and people's living quality advancing dramatically, every year, American universities welcome tens of thousands of international students from all over the world. The land of freedom and justice has opened its doors to those who seek new options and better opportunities and sometimes it asks for certain changes and adjustments fir those who come to study aboard. When these international students pursues higher education in US, fulfilling their life experience and learning something new from American culture, they too bring with them elements of international experience to an Americanuniversity. Taking up a considerable portion ofstudent population in the university, international students face difficulties to...show more content...
One is for communication (Pg. 3). He gives the example of how the different cultures in eastern Africa use Swahili to communication with among each other but use their own language when communicating among their own kind. The other role it fills is that of a medium to express ones culture. Different culture tailors different language to convey and pass down its traditions (Pg. 4). Ngugi argument about Language serves two distinct purposes is true for International students as they use "English" language as a common medium of communication whereas use their "mother tongue" as a medium of expressing their culture. "What a common language does for one person, it does for all society", this is perfectly illuminated in an article from international journal on Minority and group rights. According to article, "Effective participation in politics as well as the market economy requires the development of common vernacular expressions, the free flow of information, and established codes of communication. All of these exchanges are enhanced when individuals speak the same language". The critic of the article, Chih–Yu Shih says that if fixed proportion of population does not speak the common language, the reach of the state and the market will, in turn, shrink. This is both because communication from one language to another can translate into different meanings and because different language structures themselves reflect diverse perspectives proportion of the
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Cultural Assimilation and Assumptions
In America, a certain image has been created for its inhabitants. The mold we are supposed to fill is a working, middle class, English speaking, white male and everything outside of the mold has more rules and criticism around it forcing it to either succumb to the pressures of conformity or leave. Everyday people from different origins fight this to preserve their heritage and cultural beliefs, but they can only do so much and be successful in the United States. It is almost necessary to speak English to be successful. But why not speak both your native language and English? Unlike most countries, the Unites States believes and teaches in a monolingual style. Only four hundred schools out of the ninety–eight thousand public schools in the U.S. offer two–way immersion for early language development. Meaning there is a very limited amount of education that allows students, English speaking and non–English speaking alike, to learn in two languages. This hinders students from becoming bilingual and ultimately performing better in school in a variety of subjects. As a kid, growing up I understood what being bilingual meant and recognized the benefit of being able to communicate with people from another country; however, I was never extended the opportunity to learn and grow in that area. I think multiple languages should be taught starting in younger ages when it is easier to retain, rather than later in high school. I took three semesters
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Cultural Assimilation Essay
In the research paper Immigrants and The Economy, the authors analyze the changing composition of American labor. The service industry grew 13% from 1970 to 2000 according to the paper. The service industry ranges from high skilled labor to low skilled labor, immigrants participate in both ends, but tend to take the low skilled jobs much more frequently. The slowing of manufacturing in the US has hurt unions, causing manufacturing jobs to be less appealing to US born workers who are looking for stable jobs. The old wave of immigrants came to work in factories. Now, low–skill immigrants take jobs that are considered too menial for native–born Americans to desire. These types of jobs are in the agricultural, meat–packing, chicken–processing,...show more content...
The text set out to find whether this assimilation process was good for the economy or not. The theory behind assimilation being bad was that the immigrants would start to take jobs the native–born populous would usually take, and would start to refuse low–skilled jobs. George Borjas believes the US benefits from assimilation. The author also raises an interesting point about the correlation between cultural and economic assimilation. The hypothesis is the more cultural assimilation occurs, the more economic assimilation. Today's immigrants are older on average which decreases the chance of cultural assimilation during the first generation. Borjas also suggests to quicken the assimilation process, immigrant "enclaves" need to disperse across the country. The more time an immigrant group is in the US, the closer the wage gap becomes. Borjas also suggests that the welfare state may change the actions of immigrants in a negative economic way. The skills based system we discussed in class is suggested as the best method to speed up assimilation. By accepting immigrants more similar to the native population, we reduce the chances of assimilation
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