Ethnocultural Paper: Italian Culture and Its Impact on Substance Abuse It is believed there is a close link between alcohol and culture. ... This paper will discuss the Italian culture and its influence on substance use. Italy's location in Europe was assessable in traveling from western and eastern Europe, which allowed this country to be invaded easily by foreigners. ... "The traditional Italian American family is in many ways a matriarchal culture in which feminine strength is accepted. ... The very definition of health differs by ethnicities and cultures" (Straussner, 20...

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At first, the poet is unable to understand the hardships his father has endured or his attachments to his Polish culture. ... The father witnesses his son gradually distancing from both him and his culture as he grows older. Whilst his father refuses to assimilate with Australian culture, his son conforms to Australian society and its culture, forgetting "(his) first Polish word". ... Throughout the poem, reference to the "china-blue" house acts as an extended metaphor, symbolizing the parents" desire to preserve their European heritage and culture, allowing them an escape from reality. ... Th...

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Though each culture has its own norms, in the West the surname Is typically inherited from the paternal (father's) line. ... This ship transported anyone with European bloodline. Millions of Europeans immigrated to the United States in the 19th and 20th century and Willis was among the millions that immigrated to the U.S. ... With the different religions are cultures are different, some holidays are celebrated and some are not. ... My history and culture beliefs, values are what have made me the person I am today. ...

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This is not the case; American families seem to be enjoying the television a lot more than any other culture. ... European values concerning the family have stayed consistent for centuries. ... Most European families do not watch television for extended periods of time. ... Many European families make their children read on a daily basis. ... Many Europeans think fairly negative towards Americans. ...

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His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... Public school opened up the children to new worlds of American and English culture,...

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A person's perspective is based upon their background, previous experiences and culture. ... The poem talks about the narrator's life in the house where he and his family lived and kept "pre-war Europe alive" for nineteen years. ... In this poem the narrator speaks about his perspective of his father, and his lack of understanding of him and his polish culture. ... The narrators discontent with his old culture is shown by the phrase" I inherited unknowingly the curse that damned," showing that to him the Polish that he has picked up off his father is nothing but a curse to him. As hi...

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By forgetting and neglecting how we once were able to sustain our lives, we are unintentionally damaging our own bodies, community, and traditional culture. ... We must began to make planes, and take action on how we can sustain ourselves more eco efficiently in order to preserve Santa Clara's traditional culture and the livelihood of the people. ... It was a beautiful sight to see an entire meal coked from pre-contact (before Spanish/European influence) food. ... To me the most important issue involving the loss of Santa Clara Pueblo permaculture, is the loss of traditional culture tha...

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Each culture have its own norms, gestures, and values toward family. ... As indicated in the Social Science Encyclopedia, in European Union, Denmark had the highest divorce rate, which is 12.8 divorces per 1000 existing marriages. ...

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His reasoning was of this, "I reasoned that Chinese philosophy as the root of education was responsible for our obvious shortcomings," he reasoned within himself that Confucianism discouraged independent thought and studies in number and reason in the material culture. ... His strong enthusiasm towards learning and teaching the ways of the West were only to get Japan on a at least competitive scale, because Fukuzawa knew that the closed system would not prevail, as the Europeans were continually aggravating Japan....

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Everyone has a narrative about their life, and this is my story. My life has changed for the better since I moved to America. I implemented into my life that created amazing, compounding change, and completely shifted the direction and energy of my life. That has totally changed my life, we left eve...

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ICONIC AMERICAN FAMILY AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM. Certain problems are universal in all human societies: the need to provide for the nurturance of children, the need to provide children with adult role models of the same sex, the need for cooperation between the sexes, and the need to cont...

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