Culture is the treasury of knowledge. Culture preserves knowledge and helps its transmission from generation to generation through its means that is language helps not only the transmission of knowledge but also its preservation. Understanding culture in terms of human lives it can also be defined as the body of human customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits constituting a distinct complex of tradition of a racial, religious, or social group. According to me ,Culture also defines our social attributes such as what we eat and drink, how we dress, on what situations we laugh, weep, sleep, love to be friends with, what profession we like, what god we worship, what knowledge we rely upon, and what type of music we like to hear. Each …show more content…
One of the real contrasts that can be seen in between of American and Indian culture is in family relations. While the Indians are very much family oriented, the Americans are individually arranged. For years, India has a tradition of the joint family system where extended members of a family all live together. Usually, the oldest male in the family is the head of the family. He makes all important decisions and rules, and everyone else has to follow. Indians respect family values. On the other hand, in American culture the individual qualities get distinction than the family values. In another sense, it can be said that the American culture is more goal oriented and the Indian culture is more individuals or family oriented. Indians may even suppress their individual wishes for the purpose of families, which can’t be seen in the American society. The Indians love stability, while in contrast the Americans love mobility. In American culture, one can see that the people consider independence and are autonomous. Yet, in American culture, every individual settles on his own …show more content…
She is strongly influenced by American culture, and she is under enormous social pressure to appropriate with other women of her own age. She has lived all of her life according to the cultural and moral dictates of her mother, and she needs to find her own path in life. This is the only way Kaur knows to express that her mother’s traditions feel outdated and inappropriate in Kaur’s life. Her hair is the outward symbol of her Sikh heritage, and its heavy length binds her to a culture that is chosen for her before she is old enough to choose for herself. She makes the decision to cut her ties to her mother’s culture and beliefs by having her hair cut. For some young women, defying against the teachings of childhood frees them to follow a new path in life. For Kaur, her rebellion leaves her without an independent path. Over a period of time, she begins to adopt for herself the rituals and habits that were once shove upon her by her mother. She is able to discover that her inner identity is that of a Sikh woman, not because her mother says it is so, but because Kaur experiences that it is so. Kaur’s youthful rebellion allows her the freedom to return to her cultural roots creative by the uncertainty of whether her identity comes from her mother or from within
A family is a group of people consisting of the parents and their children who live together and they are blood related. The family is always perceived as the basic social units whether they are living together in the same compound or at far distance but are closely related especially by blood. Therefore, the family unit has had a great influence on the growth and the character traits possessed by the children as they grow up and how they perceive the society they live in. the family also shapes the children to be able to relate well with other people that are not part of their family and with a good relationship it impacts to the peace achieved in country. This paper addresses the reasons as to why the family is considered the most important agent of socialization. It’s evident that families have changed over time and they have adopted different ways of living. This paper also tackles on the causes of the dramatic changes to the American family and what the changes are. Different people with different race, gender and preferences make the family unit and this makes the difference in marriages. This will also be discussed in this paper.
Traditions control how one talks and interacts with others in one’s environment. In Bengali society, a strict code of conduct is upheld, with dishonor and isolation as a penalty for straying. Family honor is a central part to Bengali culture, and can determine both the financial and social standing of a family. Usha’s family poses no different, each member wearing the traditional dress of their home country, and Usha’s parents diligently imposing those values on their daughter. Those traditions, the very thing her [Usha] life revolved around, were holding her back from her new life as an American. Her mother in particular held those traditions above her. For example, when Aparna makes Usha wear the traditional attire called “shalwar kameez” to Pranab Kaku and Deborah’s Thanksgiving event. Usha feels isolated from Deborah’s family [Americans] due to this saying, “I was furious with my mother for making a scene before we left the house and forcing me to wear a shalwar kameez. I knew they [Deborah’s siblings] assumed, from my clothing, that I had more in common with the other Bengalis than with them” (Lahiri ...
On the contrary, in the Italian American culture, family values are the focus of Italian society and the Italian family has remained a very close social unit. Whether married, single,
In addition, she did not have any background information about the author herself, which do not let people know that whether the author is reliable for discussing this topic. Along with the several negative points about this article, there are a lot of positive points which persuade people to read it and be deeply interested in the article. For example, it contains so much valuable information and introduce the Indian culture and traditions to the audience. Furthermore, for supporting her opinions and claims author has used interviews and she interviewed several young girls who did not want to be a victim of that radical culture.
The film depicts the mesmerizing life of Ravi Patel, a middle-aged Indian man, who sets out to discover a long lasting relationship with a woman of Indian descent, particularly one with the commonly stereotyped last name “Patel”, as per his parent’s instructions. Throughout the course of the film, the audience is directed through the journey of Ravi and his sister Geeta, alongside his parents, Champa and Vasant, with a series of montages and voice-over narrations that illustrate unique Indian customs that play a vital role in the causation of the complex relationship between Ravi and his former girlfriend, Audrey. Audrey, a female of white descent is discreetly involved in a relationship with Ravi, something his parents hesitate to acknowledge. As Ravi’s parents solely approve and accept the marriage of their son with a woman of Indian origin, he is conflicted throughout his journey of discovery and is unwilling to inform his parents regarding his prior relationship with a white
Indians believe in long term relationships, for example in American culture couples are willing to live with each other without marriage, but it is impossible to live together without marriage because society would not let them live together. Indians are more family oriented, compared to Americans. They care for their family and are always ready to do anything for them. Extended families are traditional in India, while nuclear families are prevalent in American culture.
The younger generation of Sikh’s are facing issues that their ancestors may not have faced, making it more difficult for them to make the decisions that are best for themselves. It is becoming increasingly difficult for them to face the pressures of society and the pressures of the religion and family, because often the two pressures are on completely different ends of the spectrum. Although it is possible to be a follower without bearing the outward appearance of Sikhism, there are mixed feelings towards if they genuinely are following or not. It boils down to being a personal choice and whatever works best for each individual, however finding the perfect ratio of western culture and Sikh identity has proven to be a tricky chore.
Over time, there have been several aspects that have influenced these cultures and made them unique in their own ways. I believe the traditions and values that each culture holds is important when trying to learn and understand each. The cultures in Kenya and India share similarities and differences among families in context, marital relationships, and families and aging. These are all equally important to understand because this is the underlying beliefs and values these cultures have toward these life events the families may
The institution of marriage is treated differently between the two cultures. Marriage practices are not so important in the American culture, and couples are free to choose; to follow common or to choose a combination of practices. The Americans have not consistently followed their practices and customs and in some cases have adopted other practices. The American culture is not strong on the institution of marriage as it is for India. The current American society does not consider marriage institution; its importance comes after career and financial matters. This is evident in the way the society perceives marriages; marriages are secondary to career and financial matters. Americans can choose to divorce in order to pursue career of because of financial matters. The high rates of divorce also explain how the society views the institution of marriage. India considers the marriage institution as very important and should be treated with all respect by all in the society. The importance of the marriage institution is evident from the marriage practices that have remained consistent in the Indian cu...
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people…Culture in its broadest sense of cultivated behavior; a totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning (http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html).
Anthropologists define the term culture in a variety of ways, but there are certain shared features of the definition that virtually all anthropologists agree on. Culture is a shared, socially transmitted knowledge and behavior. The key features of this definition of culture are as follows. 1) Culture is shared among the members of that particular society or group. Thus, people share a common cultural identity, meaning that they recognize themselves and their culture's traditions as distinct from other people and other traditions. 2) Culture is socially transmitted from others while growing up in a certain environment, group, or society. The transmission of cultural knowledge to the next generation by means of social learning is referred to as enculturation or socialization. 3) Culture profoundly affects the knowledge, actions, and feelings of the people in that particular society or group. This concept is often referred to as cultural knowledge that leads to behavior that is meaningful to others and adaptive to the natural and social environment of that particular culture.
What is culture? Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving
The Indian family enjoys many advantages due to their inherent characteristics and social culture that help their structures. However, the advantages can be destroyed if the family is not united; as the family expands the challenge is to keep a sense of unity. These are the set of typical challenges that Indian family businesses face today:
The Truth about Me is the unflinchingly courageous and moving autobiography of a Hijra (Eunuch) who fought ridicule, persecution and violence both within her home and out- side to find a life of dignity. Revathi was born a boy, but felt and behaved like a girl. She feels like a woman trapped in a man’s body. All she wanted was to be a woman, to be considered a woman by society.In telling her life story, Revathi evokes marvellously the deep unease of being in the wrong body that plagued her from childhood. Her life became an incredible series of dangerous physical and emotional journeys to become a woman and to find love. It is an honest autobiography which depicts life as a hijra in India. A community that is feared, ridiculed and ill-treated in so many ways.It is a peek into lives of our sexual minorities who have struggled so hard to gain acceptance, ill-treated by society, by the law enforcers,shackled by our archaic laws, looked down by their own families, no means of earning a living, etc. The story opens in small village in Tamil Nadu. Doraisamy was the youngest of five children – the fourth boy. He grew up shy, culturally effeminate, with an inclination to dress as a girl and do traditionally female activities around the house – the domestic chores, the games, the singing and dancing.Doraisamy spends his childhood years with a growing unease as he tries to negotiate his body’s incongruity with his inner desires and natural talents.In his mid-teens he met a group of like-spirited men, who introduced him to visiting hijras. Doraisamy stole some money and an earring from his mother, and ran away from home. As Revathi, she could dress, walk, and talk as a woman. But she is, of course, a hijra, that liminal third-sex, and so she was constrained to live and earn in specific places, in specific manners. The story follows Revathi’s life as she moved from city to city,
Garg in ‘Hari Bindi’ discusses the story of a common woman and made it extraordinary by the active force she was experiencing in herself to live her life. The husband of the protagonist symbolises the power and control of patriarchy that had restricted her life in such a way