Over the past few years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to travel to Swaziland, South Africa. This experience dramatically changed my view on the world and the different cultures that exist. These cultures influence how our societies think, act, and speak differently. The cultural universa...
In the film from 1980, "The Gods Must Be Crazy," written and directed by Jamie Uys, one of the members of a tribe in the Kalahari Desert named Xi embarks in an adventure through unknown civilizations that coexists in the Kalahari Desert due to an empty coke bottle. In my opinion, this film is a well...
Immigrants from all over the world have come to the United States to live. Our population consists of individuals and groups who have different ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds. That is why the United States is often called a nation of nations. In the United States today, many dif...
An Old Friend Joyce Carol Oates writes "Where are you going, Where have you been" in a very symbolic way. The first time people read her story, they come away wondering what the story you have just read was really about. In the story, Connie, a fifteen year old girl is confronted with the real worl...
Creating a Universal Culture There is a universal culture which unites all human beings in shared emotions, feelings, and instincts. However, worldwide, there exist diverse ethnic, racial, regional, and national sub-cultures which share characteristics with other sub-cultures, but are defined by ...
Cultural Difference Arriving in WSU, almost everyone around me is Caucasian. Of course, there are still some foreign students from other countries just as myself. Therefore, it seems a cultural gathering on our campus. We cannot help speaking English in order to communicate with others. Thus, ...
Defining Intelligence The theory of intelligence has been a subject of confusion its conception. The search for one explicit definition for intelligence has been pondered over for centuries, and to this day has never been fully achieved. Many have attempted to define intelligence, but none ha...
It is amazing how cultural differences come out in the strangest of places. One unique place to find cultural differences is the comparison of two movies from different countries. This process is aided when the two movies contain nearly the same plot and storyline. Abre Los Ojos and Vanilla Sky ...
Australia could be argued as being one of the most multi-cultural countries in the world. It is a blend of traditional British, European and Asian sub-cultures that exists within the country. The combination of cultures can be witnessed in areas such as cuisine, where Chinese and Italian restaurants...
