There are many cultures in the world and they are all different. Most people mix up race and culture. I don't understand why they mix race and culture up when they are so different. Race is a group in an area with the same physical traits. Culture is whatever is passed down or taught to make someone act the way they do. The differences are huge, but most commoners just can't see the differences.
Physical and psychological causes are interesting and in my opinion very fun to learn about. Physical causes are something you are born with like a skinny eyes or very long Asian eyes. A very short life and traits like that. A psychological cause is something you learn later on in your life. For example sports or music. I think that culture is one of the mane reasons we have wars. I feel that all the different cultures and there customs begin wars. I reflect this way because once you are taught something at a young age many people get their mind set on what they believe and don't want to except any other ideas.
Geography is one of the biggest reasons people have interesting and different cultures. If only one culture lives by the ocean then the other cultures are not going to have customs in their culture that has to do with the ocean. I think one of the most interesting things to read about because of the change that has happened over the years. For example so may cultures have moved regions that its hard to tell by looking if their customs really have something to do with the ocean or if there are just living there for the house.
My great grandmothers always said I speak beyond my years, but in her culture young woman were supposed to know many motherly traits like advice and cooking. In different cultures you will here different things. I realized isolated cultures make it harder to borrow ideas from other cultures. So those isolated cultures will not progress to learn at the same rate as the other cultures that are surrounded and have plenty of cultures to borrow ideas from.
It has caused dramatic changes in traditions, cultures, and much more. ... The purpose of this critique is to provide an unbiased opinion of capitalism and modernity as two of the most influential phenomena in the last couple of centuries. ... (Vitcus 6)These ideas and changes in culture is what is referred to as modernity. ...
This essay is a critique of two topics that I have selected from the student workbook. ... The next article I will critique is a chapter taken from The Subcultures Reader, a book written by Gelder, K. and Thornton, S. ... Further, these class's develop "culture," which is it's own unique form of character. ... In the rest of this reading, Clarke et al. identify the working-class subcultures and critique this culture from an array viewpoints. ... This paper was a critique of two different reading from a student workbook. ...
Taking Saussure's linguistics as our point of departure and bringing to bear Derrida's critique of the metaphysics of presence, we can begin to raise epistemological as well as political questions about language's epistemic status as a lens through which we may access reality. ... It is important to note that Derrida's critique of structurality applies not only to the metaphysical interpretation of language, but to all of the West's theoretical systems: of morality, of political ethics, of religion, of science, of philosophy. What is significant, then, about Derrida&...
In this time of mass produced, pop culture, are there any aspects from this culture that critique the times and beliefs that we live in? ... Although there are very few examples of pop culture giving a social critique today, one stands out in my mind, South Park. ... In my view South Park is a critical challenge to the current society's belief system and is a valuable critique on the American psychic. ... They have run the gamete of views from vilified for corrupting the youth to being praised for taking an aggressive critique of society. ... The first of the three main themes in South Pa...
So often you hear people critique the fine artists of Europe such as Michael Angelo, Picasso, Rosso Florentino, Degas and his ballerinas. However, American Art has its place too in the importance and history of art culture. ... However it is important that American art be seen as influential as European art within the art culture. This critique of the Los Angles County Museum of Arts, American Art Exhibit, currently one of LACMA's permanent collections, delves into the spirituality which is the history of American Art. ... And how culture plays an important ro...
The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ideologies inscribed in a literature that is male-centered and male-dominated. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... (i) "Feminist critique," - examining how women characters are portrayed, exposing the patriarchal ideology implicit in the so-called classics, and demonstrating that attitudes and traditi...
Beckwith's essay A Critique of Moral Relativism he states that "moral relativists argue there is no absolute right and wrong, but that moral rules are personal preferences or the result of one's cultural, sexual, or ethnic orientation". ... Beckwith begins with explaining relativist's argument that cultures disagree on moral issues including war, abortion, and sexual practices, and that one culture is in no place to judge another. ... To take that thought further, if relativism was in fact the best way to deal with other cultures and their countries laws, or rules of e...
First and foremost, an individual reform must take place, recognition of community and not individuality that white culture strictly enforces. ... He continues to critique the American school system for creating "a competitive system which measures individual achievement" (Villanueva 40). ... Furthermore, this standard of learning entraps the minority, resulting in "alienation" within ones own culture. ... However, his use of personal experience does not stem from the necessity to illustrate the struggles of a minority culture or even its inferiority to a dominant class. Vi...
