It seems to me that the media portrays my culture mostly with negative stereotypes, and the media does indeed influence people's perception of others. ... For example, the media will show black people to eat fried chicken and drink Kool-Aid like they don't have an appetite for anything else. Or even, If it is being shown that somebody black doesn't like chicken, all of a sudden the other characters are shocked and began to say things like "You don't like chicken?!?! ... African Americans are portrayed to eat fried chicken, however there are many blacks that don't ...

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I guess because of Shakespeare's Caliban, the English during that time thought people who are dark or black skin color were uncivilized and savage. ... For example, I see an Asian guy and assume that he is good at math or a black guy and assume that he can run really fast. ... For example, An Asian man is seen to be tied with Asian cultures, like chopsticks and talks like one, but the man was raised in a black community. Thus he developed to talk and act like the community that he was raised. ... Even my Malaysian's friends doesn't acknowledge me as someone who knows Malaysian c...

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In the group presentations, the group that did the Italian Mafia intrigued me and got me thinking about subcultures within cultures. ... A few months earlier, a black male entered a Korean owned convenience store and walked out with a c! ... I liked most of the presentations that I observed. ... businessmen was the mob acted like a family or group. ... Most Italian immigrants saw the mob as a hero figure kind of like a Robin Hood. ...

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The education of blacks was there to meet the needs of the whites. ... White teachers were uncomfortable with the black children in their classrooms. ... As a result, sometimes black kids feel like, "I am going to make it miserable 5 Philip Bigler and Karen Lockard, Failing Grades (Arlington: Vandamere Press, 1992) 116. for you because you don't want me here anyway." The reason they fell like this is that they have gotten the message loud and clear that they are not wanted. ...

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When someone is not wealthy, they're normally greedy just like these African-Americans. ... They gave me a fear of the future. ... Lets say I get a 39/40 on a test, my parents first congratulate me on the A, but then they discourage me by telling me I should have gotten 40/40. ... They shaped me into a gamer. ... There are people in this world like heroes, the greats, or the inventors that have such a strong individual viewpoint, it seems like not much influences them except for their own thoughts. ...

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She is currently a full time student at the University of New Mexico, living close to campus in an apartment of her own and that young lady is me. ... For example: we employ such phrases as "you know what I mean," and "get me the thingy" with success, and we use completely different forms of communication for our mother and father. ... It also made me an affectionate person, comfortable with physical attention from different people. ... Like Anne Fadiman, a favorite author, I like to be at the intersection of multiple groups because, "I have always felt that the action...

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I like spicy or salty foods, which may explain why these two foods are my favorite, and also why I like seafood so much. ... At these restaurants, onions with black bean paste, kim chi, and pickled radishes called dah-ggwang, are served as small appetizers. ... My mother tells me I have expensive taste because when she cooks something that may be a delicacy or just expensive, without knowing I comment on how good it tastes and ask her to make it more often. ... Like fast food, the consumers are fast, on the run, and have no time to sit back and enjoy things. ... Ball Park Franks also su...

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Marlow struggles within himself to see if he is like this man. ... While observing the dying Kurtz, Marlow realizes how close he is to becoming like him. ... It is like the beginning of time where there is no concept of time. ... The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy. ... Man is unable to live like this because the truth is disguised in the civilized world, full of money, lies, and power. ...

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While speaking with her husband in her native tongue she speaks in a strong voice, rapidly, with a high pitch and to me sounds as if she runs her words together. ... She has an education in finances and would like to one day get a job at a bank however fears that it is still difficult to understand the real meaning of words that are spoken and therefore has made a living selling items on eBay that her and her husband have bought at flea markets or yard sales. ... She does not work outside of the home therefore reports time as not being important however, she does state, "that I have a schedule...

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