Over the past few years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to Swaziland, South Africa. ... Two of the activities that are big in Africa are singing and dancing. ... Their language, however, is much different than the language we use. The native language in Swaziland is Saswati, but most citizens can also speak English because it is taught to them in school. ... Through this experience of traveling to Africa and seeing how different their culture is from mine, I have learned to appreciate the little things in life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The history of the African-American has been a story of assimilation and resistance. ... This fear of how resistance could be met compelled many African slaves to assimilate to their new life. ... They began to take on the cultures and the language of the majority. Thus, many slaves left behind the beliefs and traditions that had been taught to them in Africa. Many of the African slaves in America had the "Fanta Mentality." ...

• Word Count: 515
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As an African American, There are countless ways we are stereotyped in aspects of language, cuisine, social habits, religion and music. ... African Americans are shown to speak a different type of "language" that some people don't consider English. ... The Media describes African American to lack good social skills. African Americans are shown to be disrespectful. ... Religion is shown to be a big deal to African Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1431
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(Iyer, BR p. 306) In our world today, we exchange language, goods, values, and people. ... The global village is able to exchange languages, goods, values, and people through popular media. ... Amazingly enough, Tokyo, for example, has more telephones than the whole continent of Africa. ... This gap excludes the slower paced countries like Africa because we can't reach out to exchange and communicate with their societies. ...

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E.K.B sees his uncle as an idol and shows that he is proud to be in his uncle's bloodstream by titling the poem "Ogun" who is the African god of iron and thunder. The fact that this is an African god shows the loss of identity as E.K.B. describes later in the poem how technology that is mainly from the western world or the more economically developed countries begins to evolve. ... Search For My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt is about the ways in which she finds it difficult switching between two languages, Gujarati and English. The tongue represents the language and the "mother tongue" is the...

• Word Count: 980
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• Grade Level: High School

The two characters in this story are Franny and Ginny, these are two African American girls Franny is about seven to ten years old and Ginny is about four to six years old. ... There hair is in many braids; with bobble ties and barrettes like most young African American girls wear their hair. This seems to be a stereotype of how young African American girls all wear their hair. ... The language is simple and age appropriate English. ... The language is rather unrealistic. ...

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Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Language There are many factors that contribute to the history of a culture. ... This negative stereotype is compared to the negative stereotypes that were given to Africans in earlier decades. ...

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Kung were a very studied group including their language, culture, and economic organization. ... They also speak several languages, use store bought clothing, food, electronics, and inoculations. ... Among the many cultures in Africa, one of the most well known cultures would be the !... The Kung San are hunting and gathering people living in southern Africa. !Kung are a varied people in terms of looks and language, and include people living Angola, Botswana, Zambia, and Namibia. ...

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Cultural influence effect infant and toddler development in many ways such as how they express emotion, how dependent or independent they are, and the languages they speak and learn. ... If an American child is born and raised in Africa with a home life focused on African values and culture than they will have values commonly seen in African cultures rather than those seen in American cultures. ...

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All over the world, people are moving from language to language, from culture to culture, sensibility to sensibility, negotiating across time zones and continents. ... Traveling from Africa to America, which once required months at sea, now only takes hours in the air. ... I can honestly say my identity is changing because my tongue is slowly switching to the American language; I have slowly adopted the American culture. ... Due to migration, I have to learn a second language as well as a new culture. However, I still manage to speak French, my first language. ...

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For example, while English is our official language, many words of other countries and cultures have been added to our vocabulary. Yam (African), cookie (Dutch), pretzel (German), tobacco (Native American), and ranch (Spanish) are words describing things we think of as being "American". ...

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Many colored people call themselves African American. I talked to a man in a coffee shop once that used the term African-American to describe him. ... I asked a friend of mine why he called himself black instead of African American. ... So he was not sure his ancestry came from Africa. ... My great, great, great grandfather was from Denmark but he would never teach his children the language because he believed that they should only speak Engli...

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In the end he decides on Africa although it was not his initial point of focus. ... Once that is overcome he sets out to find an assistant that could aid him in learning the language. ... He does not speak the language, they are typically scattered, and the weather does not cooperate as it rains often. ... He also spends time during the morning learning the language and writing down his findings and observations. ... After months of trying to learn the language, setting up a routine, he is disappointed to find anything really exiting about the Dowayos or anthropologically interesting. ...

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A racial slur would be a derogatory term directed towards a group of people independent from their origin of birth such as African or Hispanic Americans. ... As I stated before, I believe that a culture is a group of people with similar characteristics regarding faith, language, morals, political ideology, lifestyles, etc. ... A country can be a culture based on faith, political ideology, and/or language. ...

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The unnamed narrator's ethnicity is African-American during the 19th century, which is the reason why he is treated so unfairly. ... The other African-Americans in Battle Royale and the unnamed narrator are not wealthy at all. When someone is not wealthy, they're normally greedy just like these African-Americans. ... Wealth, family, and ethnicity all have such a huge impact on how African-Americans are treated and how they act. ... My ethnicity didn't only impact the number of languages I speak but how I view the world. ...

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1. WORLDVIEW/RELIGION The worldview of people is the way they interpret reality and events, including images of themselves and how they relate to the world around them (pg 120). My worldview is shaped by my religion (pg 126) which is Christianity (pg 134). Everything I do is based on my religion and knowing that I am being watched over by God and that he sees everything I choose to do. I believe I am on this earth because God died for my sins and created me putting me on this earth. ...

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I only knew the Japanese just five months ago, but now I have Scottish-American host mother, African-American friend, Arabian-American classmate, and Chinese-American teacher. ... They didn't have a common language, a common way of living, but they did have common feelings. ... Even if we can't communicate with language, or we can't understand each other's way of thinking, we can show our goodwill by a big smile or we can show our appreciation with tears since we all have the same feelings and know the feelings. ...

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I learned that when an American travels to another country they must abide by that country's laws, adapt to their language, and the do's and don'ts of life in that country. ... Take for example a marriage between an African American and an Anglo American. ... When I went to Mexico I had to follow the laws and language of that country. ...

• Word Count: 2002
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On that slow ascent, a mixture of claustrophobia, body odor, and foreign languages overpowered my bravado. ... I worry that the novel will isolate and alienate African American students (Mcbride, "Culture Shock," Social Education, 1999, v63, p410)." ...

• Word Count: 2631
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• Grade Level: High School