The majority of Americans share similar dreams and traditions. ... "American culture encompasses the customs and traditions of the United States, including language, religion, food and the arts. ... U.S. culture has also been shaped by the cultures of Native Americans, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians.... That's only two things that make Americans upset, but they're many more obstacles and criticism that Americans go through every day. ... Discrimination is a huge problem in the United States of America. ...

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As of right now America is populated with minorities from different racial and ethnic backgrounds such as Asians, Africans, Latinos, and Native Americans, all of which are known as minorities. ... Native Americans were here already on conquest to practice their own religion. ... Native Americans worked in the cornfields as game hunters. ... The Native American household was ran where the man had many sex partners or mates outside of his marriage. Native American women had to stay home with the house work just as the Latinas and Asians did. ...

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In Mary Rowlandson's Narrative, she defines her Puritan race by showing what it is not through the Native Americans. ... Using strong words in describing the Native Americans such as "barbarous creatures"(Norton 150), Mary Rowlandson right off the bat excludes the Native Americans from the human race; showing that the Puritans are on a higher level than them. Furthermore, she describes Native Americans dancing around the fire and doing immoral slaughtering of humans. Mary Rowlandson sees this instance as an act of the devil and since the Puritan religion would condone such acts, she be...

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Who started every war that America has been in? ... The genocide of native people in countries ruled by whites? ... Most of the racism in Australia is directed towards the aboriginals, just the same as when white man first came Australia and slaughter thousands of natives of Aboriginals who had no chance. ... This is a different type of racism because it is about religion and what people believe in. ... This is one day that Americans especially will never forget. ...

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Chapter 2: Native American vs. European Women Native American Women were living on the land that is called North America today for thousands of years. ... Native American women did most of the farming and agricultural work. ... This was a disadvantage for Native American women. ... With the shift in religion came a shift in gender roles. ...

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In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... Throughout his book, Wright depicts religion as something Digger views as suppression against African Americans. ... Bigger goes on to exclaim the cross is nothing but a lie, implying that he has lost all faith in religion, seeing it as only another tool of white society to control African Americans. ... In Native Son, Bigge...

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America has a unique history and heritage. ... This is probably the main reason why people came to America. ... There were many problems in England concerning religion. ... They all brought customs and lifestyles from their native countries to the New World. ... America has a very distinct and unique heritage. ...

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We are a Slavic nation native to the Balkans (southeast Europe). ... Religion is one of the key aspects of what makes us Serbs, and it is claimed by us as a whole that those who are not faithful to our religion are not Serbs. ... I'm a Serbian-American. I am an Orthodox Christian surrounded by Catholics and other religions. ... Serbs view Americans in a negative light, and Americans view Serbs in a negative light (for the most part). ...

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We hear people call themselves African American, German American, Asian American, and any number of other country slash American. ... If we build off these definitions for this paper we could build a working definition and say that culture is the projection of the production of all abstract things, such as art, religion, sports, and leisure activity, by a given people in a given area. ... The answer I think brings us back to the definition of culture as encompassing the abstract things such as religion, art and other abstract things. ... Taking myself again as an example I could easily label...

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The misinterpretation of race has shattered the American society and for all that it stands. We should correct America's immoral actions and assumptions that separate God's children in hope of reforming the United States toward true equality. ... For example, admissions forms asked to check one of the boxes containing the following: African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, White, Other, and Prefer not to answer. ... How can we be equal in America, yet be judged by the color of our skin? ... Furthermore, categorizing races into any gro...

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They wanted to raise their daughter as a Myanmar, let their daughter spoke Burmese at home and taught the religion as a Buddhist. ... Although immigrant people's lives are very hard, they can do everything like native people. Most of the successful businessmen are immigrants and they have strange abilities to compete with native people. ... In spite of Asian American immigrant are also discriminated against and had not achieved equality with whites, they never give up their lives. Their influence on American institution and culture will expand largely because of their high average educati...

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The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... She uses religion in her argument, writing that it was through God's own "mercy," that she was saved from her "pagan" land and allowed her to seek redemption. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was neither reading, nor writing, nor speaking to her audience in her native language," (Kafka 46). ... ...

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American music is extremely varied and diverse. ... Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. ... England, particularly, had a profound impact on American culture and society. ... American-born composers generally went to Europe to perfect their craft. Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. ...

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