King Henry II discriminated against their culture; he believed the English culture was superior to that of the Irishmen, so the Irish had to accept the English rule. ... The Europeans led the exploration of the world before many other nations. ... To the Europeans, "These foreign peoples embodied an innocent nobility which they deemed lacking within their over civilized culture"[ CITATION Sco99 l 1033 ] Many of the stories spoke of monsters and marvels, such as those written by Pliny the Elder. ... This how categorizing a culture has also led to racial categorizing. ... Ultimately, w...

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All slaves knew work associated with their culture and not the American culture, left them with nothing, so when freed in the late 1800's they had no other trade skills. ... "Nigger" was created as a combination of the Spanish (European) word "negro," which means "black," and the Greek word "necro," which means "dead." ... The Europeans or (whites) who controlled the slave trade realized that he had to strip the Africans or (black people) of all culture such as original names, languages, and religion. ... The word "nigga" was one of the most damaging tools used by the European to force me...

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The contrast between dialogue in the play focuses on how humour is used as an evocation of pity and sadness and how the Aboriginal language along with their lifestyle has been corrupted by their dependency on European settlers. The contrast between living conditions and legal rights between white and black Australians is also relevant to the construction and dramatic success of the play, as it sets up an appalling social hierarchy purely determined by race, culture and skin colour. ... As language is seen as being a symbol of identity and culture this intertwining of the two languages shows th...

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American's come from every ethnicity, religion and culture and as a result of the mixed ethnicity in US, there are more from Irish ancestry than in Ireland, more Italians in New York than in Venice, as well more Polish, blacks, Jews than in their leading cities of their countries. ... There are not two groups alike regarding geography, age, occupation, income, culture etc. ... The switch from wind-driven ships to steam ships represented an important step from economical and immigration point of view; so that, the immigrants number increased from 5 million to 10 million in 30 years, and to...

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The colonized culture is forced to adapt to the ideologies and structures of the colonizing culture, which, as the controller of power, sets the parameters of acceptable cultural behavior, marginalizing the beliefs and needs of other minority groups. ... This ensuing clash of divergent cultures hindered any attempt to create a unifying cultural identity. ... Benitez-Rojo claims that the "Caribbean, in substantial measure, was shaped by Europe for the plantation, and the generalized historical convergence shown by the different territories in the region are always related to that purpose" (P...

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This paper, therefore, seeks to draw attention into how the diversity influences society, not in just non-material culture but also in the material culture with a focus on the United States culture. ... The people from Europe and far eastern, are represented by rock music and slow flowing songs. ... Though, the European songs are also played with high volumes to define entertainment and social class. ... American English, for example, is as a result of the dialect made from the British English by the many immigrants and students that formed the culture of America after some time. ... They rep...

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We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. ... European Americans even drove Mexicans further and further south, all of this until we have the corners of what we call the United States today. ... He wanted European immigrants to assimilated into American citizens as soon as possible – but what exactly does that mean? ... While reading the first two chapters, the reader becomes enraptured by the culture of the Yankton Sioux. ... Ša sets this up to ...

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Groups may be almost identical physiologically, yet be divided against each other on the basis of culture, language, religion, nationality. ... Latinos have some relationship to the dominant white culture; some are doctors and leader, like Cruz Bustamonte. African Americans also have a relationship to the dominant white culture as well like Rev Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King they are great minority speakers. ... Some Americans behave as if racial differences produce inherent superiority in European Americans (whites). ... Multicultural competence is the fluency in more than one cult...

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Although it must be acknowledged that language and culture alone do not constitute an ethnic group, they do provide a framework from which a common identity can be derived, thus in defining the largest ethnolinguistic categories in Angola, language and cultural background will be analyzed. ... Multiple sources discussed the three largest indigenous ethnolinguistic categories in addition to Europeans and mesticos (individuals who are of Native African and European decent). ... The composition of Europeans is 1% and the composition of mesticos is 2%. ... In an effort to avoid an embrace of th...

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It will also elaborate on its link to the Virginia State of Assessment Plan in local colleges, and how it ranks within different cultures and genders. ... Among high school seniors who entered college in the fall of 1999, the African Americans' averages scores on the SAT I verbal section was 93 points below European American students' average scores. On the average, African Americans scored 106 points less than European Americans on the math portion, (Jencks and Phillips, p.3). ... These racial groups include African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans...

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Xenophanes observed that anthropomorphism occurred in every society and culture. Early examples of anthropomorphism can be found throughout the Hindu culture and in several of their deities, such as Ganesha. The appearance of anthropomorphism across every society and culture indicates that perhaps anthropomorphism is an innate, physiological behavior. ...

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Linda stated that she identifies with both races, her white ethnicity inherited by her American European mother, and her black race and culture, from her father's African American descent, and considers herself of no race other than that of the "human race." Because she spends a lot of time thinking about different ethnicities, cultures, and the fact that she is highly offended when she is considered as anything other than biracial, it is safe to say that she is still very confused. ... She does this by evaluating her environment, analyzing the different cultures and placing herself in ...

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Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Africans were immediately labeled with terms including savage and heathen. ... Although they are gross caricatures, these representations and images left lasting impressions which effects can be seen even in contemporary culture today. Furthermore, these particular representations have deep seated roots that can be traced back to slavery and even further to the first white European and African encounter. ... However the marked differences between the two cultures inevitably led to ideas ...

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More than four million non-white Britons live in England, making it one of the most ethnically complex countries in Europe. ... The UK played a significant role in drawing up the European Employment Directive, which has been agreed by all EU Member States. ... Diversity goes further than food, however, with a multicultural society enabling everyone to experience live music, or art of cultures from around the world. ... In general it is likely that the majority of people have a fairly ambivalent / slightly positive attitude towards a multicultural society as they see the numerous cultural be...

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Slaves were stripped of their culture and given a new identity and way to live, being inferior to whites, as slaves. ... Africans were brought to the United States by Europeans who settled in America, this was the beginning of slavery. ...

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Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because of American racial ideologies in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because enviable traits such as progress and empire building became associated with the term. The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... The removal of America's indigenous people invoked a feeling of remorse and guilt among the intruders, among the European invaders, among the whites. ... This...

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There are several different races, nationalities and cultures that surround my entire community. ... In my personal neighborhood there are people of many different cultures, but the majority of us are Hispanics. ... My new neighbors are of the European culture and they do not get along with any of us that are not of their same race. ... The Pueblo Chieftain, which is our local news paper, has several journalists that are of the Hispanic culture and do a very good job with recognizing the Hispanic Americans in my community. ... Being that in my community there are leaders of many different cul...

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This not only is true to African Americans but is true to all post-colonial indigenous people whose lives were negatively impacted by contact with Europeans. ... They too are forced to accept this theory that they have two souls they must intermingle, or they have to try and re conjure their old culture that is somewhere lost between now and the original contact with the Europeans. ... This was the initial act of stripping all ties to their culture by the Americans. ... This removal of their culture continued further once they were bought at a slave auction by an owner. ... This violence playe...

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The Harlem Renaissance showed the unique culture of African Americans and redefined African American expression. ... Not only did the Harlem Renaissance transform African American identity and history, but it also transformed American culture in general. ... Johnsons magazine Opportunity became the leading voice of black culture, while The Crisis, a monthly magazine of the NAACP depicted the New Negro with portrait shots of well-dressed blacks. ... Countee Cullen used both African and European images to explore the African roots of black American life. ...

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1.3) Contextual Introduction Born in Dakar in the year 1945, Mbaye is an artist Senegalise contemporary painter, sculptor and art teacher. He goes by the nickname "Tita" and used to be an assistant and then a professor of plastic arts at the Academy of Arts of Dakar and a graduate of the Arts Education High School (Magnin, 1996:88). He completed an internship in cartooning and set design under the aegis of the French Community of Belgium. It is important to note that very little information is available on Mbaye because of his isolated location in Africa. It is known that he has a pa...

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The first section is a comparison between slavery in the New World and in Western Europe and Africa. ... There, African American men, women, and children developed an underground culture through which they "affirmed their humanity". ...

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As white peoples and European forces unmercifully plummeted over African grounds in aims to exploit and oppress the nation, masking various cultures and stripping their rightful freedoms away, they exhibited their global power and dominance. ...

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Those who contributed greatly to world culture across several platforms include John Milton (author of Paradise Lost), Franklin D. ... When we open ourselves to different historical perspectives and cultural experiences from people of color, other races, immigrants, those who are non-heterosexual, the disabled in America to name a few, much of what we discover may be incompatible with our ("our" defined as the losing ground dominant culture) image of the United States as that of a completely free and democratic nation. Multiculturalism in America gained ground after WWII with the influx of r...

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They are developing a psychology that has its roots in the African worldview which is opposite to the European worldview. ... All of these psychologists go on to show their view of psychology and apply/trace them back to African culture. "Her thrust is to define and implement as a critical framework for understanding and achieving maximum mental health a theory of psychology rooted in and reflective of African culture."...

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Eugenics had dire effects in cultures of the twentieth century in many countries. ... Eugenics was created in the late nineteenth century designed as a way to protect the upper class from inferior people and cultures. ... Immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe brought drastically different philosophies with them such as anarchism, anarchism, and Marxism (Eugenics Movement Archive). ...

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