Every culture has its own general belief system that has been passed on from generation to generation. The belief system of a particular culture is usually conditioned into the belief system of its members to share the same beliefs, and is usually conditioned through everyday living within the culture. ... One can easily see how these beliefs change from culture to culture by looking at the difference in ideals of a third-world country, such as India, compared to the highly developed country that we live in. ... The sub-culture that may have affected me with the most controversial beliefs i...

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His Fourfold Cultural Balance theory states there were four distinct zones (Europe, Middle East Africa, India, and China) of civilization development that were marked by a unique culture. ... The Spice trade routes traded spices from India to Europe and China. All of these routes caused the founding of way stations of a culture throughout a foreign land, interdependence of the zones for valuable goods to placate the people, cultural items and artifacts to be spread throughout foreign lands, sharing of ideas between people of different cultures, and, over time, more tolerance for people from fo...

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Buddhism arose during the fifth century BCE in India and is currently practiced by approximately 500 million people throughout the world. ... Buddhist ideas became more known when Americans returned from Asia after the Second World War and the Korean War and brought back an interest in Asian culture. ...

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Britain's government, politics, and culture were all affected by the Revolution, as their failure spurred the Parliment to reaffirm both its governance and its competence. ... It was called the "Patriots" Revolt", in which the reformist patriot celebrated American life, society, and culture, and despised British views and way of life. ... Also with the loss of America, Britain gained India as a main trading partner which greatly benefited them in many ways. India stregthened Britain's class system and more impotantly made middle-class radicalism unpatriotic. ... The American Revoluti...

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Both sisters, born and raised in India, moved to America to study. ... However, my father shares Mira's opinion on only coming to America for the vast career opportunities it offers, wanting to leave to back to India in his later life. ... Though, at first, I was hesitant to leave my Indian culture behind I realized that at least for me it wasn't a choice between the two lives, it is possible for them to coexist. ... As years went by, though my parents will always love India more and consider it a home, they began to understand and enjoy life here. ... After I moved to America, and ...

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Therefore, America is a melting pot of cultures. ... However, the situation in America is that there is no "age-old American culture." ... India has they"re own defined race of people, as do North African countries, Russia, and so on. ... Although America is an assortment of other cultures, we have come together as a whole and developed some aspects of culture that we share as "American culture." ... We took things from other cultures and attempted to put our own twist on it. ...

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Americans musical history is very short when compared to Japan, India, Africa, and China. ... Music varies greatly around the world, mostly because it has a lot to do with culture. Africa's culture is very different from ours, so is their music. ...

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In America in 1960, the mortality rate was at 71.3, opposed to a country like India with a mortality rate of 43.4. ... However in 2012 America raised up to 82.6 while India went to 65.5, showing that even at this day and age, it matters more about your location rather, then the year. ... Because of all the military returning home, birth rate peaked in 1960-1970 and only now is becoming steady, because of the age of the baby boomers and also how the culture has changed from then to now. ...

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I come from a family of pure Indians, where dating is almost non-existent compared to the Western culture. In India, it is a generally accepted fact that your family will choose your future mate for you. While Indian families living in the West still carry on with the tradition of arranged marriages, others find themselves adopting from the western cultures, and young adults are allowed to do some actual dating based on their own preferences. ... When I told him why we had to break up he told me "I know that your parents want you to follow their traditions and marry someone who is from th...

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The unequal access to resources that comes with class stratification ultimately pushed societies to migrate, displacing more egalitarian cultures, according to a study from Stanford University.... For many years, the best-known caste system was in India, where, supported by Hindu beliefs emphasizing the acceptance of one's fate in life, several major castes dictated one's life chances from the moment of birth, especially in rural areas (Kerbo, 2009).Kerbo, H. ...

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This lead to the Tea Act of 1773, which stated that only the East India Company could import and sell tea. ... America had also developed their own identify as a new culture that was extremely different from England. ...

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One child in America will pollute and waste more over a lifetime than 30 children in India. ... It hard to believe that Indian husbands and their parents would injure and even murder their wives because of the inability to produce sons of which their culture requires. ...

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In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government." Up until 1776 when the War en...

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In the world today, the existence of human rights abuses still continues to exist. These human rights abuses are salient issues that, in some parts of the world, are not appropriately treated. The country Haiti carries the tradition of child-slavery. Restavek, "to stay with", is the name given to...

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Can I get a tattoo? This is a question asked by teenagers all across America to their parents and usually answered with a no and its understandable why parents don't like any of it but their reasons are usually, it looks stupid, why would you want something like that done, and for what? Then...

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