having the capacity of write and read helps to be part of the society. Nowadays is almost impossible to find a job for a person that do not have the capacity to write or read. My life would be complete different if a would not have these capacities. I might never find a good job, and I might never have the chance of using the technology. I could not be imaging that a person that have not the capacity to write and read find a job because even in the easiest jobs a person might need to read. Also for any emergency that happen during the work hours if this person could not have the capacity of read a sign and follow a basic instruction like “break in case of fire” will be a huge problem for the employer. Secondly, the technology has been creating …show more content…
The is not such a thing as a “pure” ethnic culture. Most people believe that they have a “pure” blood that all their ancestress have always procreated with people of the same culture. But I believe that is hard to find a “pure” in this days. How would be possible to be a pure if society have change as much as it has, if countries and immigrants has procreated in other places. First of all, the world has change in so many different ways. If a person think that they are pure British or pure American aborigines, it would be so improbable. There are proofs that at the beginning of the world there were not continents. It was just one big land and so how a person could speck to have I pure blood of a land that did not exist in the past. Moreover, big population have immigrated in many other countries. For example, if a person believe that is pure American Aborigines decedent, how would this person identify the aborigines that have come from Mexico from the one that are natives if the ones that have come has learned the language and the culture of the natives. So this person might think that well is not to bad still being a aborigines blood. However, we know that many aborigines from Mexico have procreate with Spanish so how could a person be
When looking into how minority groups work on asserting their desired ethnic identities, I believe this to be the case in many instances. I have heard, and have seen through the media, that if you appear to have some type of African background, that it is better to claim that you also have a background such Puerto Rican or some kind of an Islander. As we have spoken about in class, When someone of African background arrives to America
and I share a common ethnic origin, but all that comes with our origin, be it
In the United States, there are a vast majority of ethnicities and races, which is why we are oftentimes recognized as “the melting pot”. Because of this, it may seem difficult to keep ethnic groups completely separate because there are interactions between different races every single day, even though some might not even be aware of it. Some people, especially ones from older generations, see this as an abomination because they feel that races must be kept pure and also feel that assimilation diminishes the uniqueness of one’s ethnic identity. However, would it not make a person more unique to be part of multiple cultures? According to an article aptly titled “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above” by Susan Saulny, it is revealed that “Multiracial and multiethnic Americans are one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups” (NYtimes.com). Because 1 in 7 new marriages are interracial, the number of mixed race people is just going to keep increasing. With the way this is going, there could be very few people in the United States who identify with strictly one ethnic group or race. In a way, everyone is going to be the same (mixed race) but in different combinations, which would still make us all individuals. When this happens, America will be more unified and will be less full of prejudice as it always has seemed to be towards certain races.
...ad and Write" teaches us the importance of learning how to communicate effectively. If we do not know how to read and write, we can not ensure the expansion of knowledge that makes our civilization grow and prosper. All levels of the education system should teach the importance of reading and writing because they enable us to create new ideas that can change the world. If we do not teach it now, who would know about us in the future?
I’m a twenty-three year old African American male from Chicago. My great great grandparents were slaves in Mississippi. Sometime during the slavery days a slave owner had sex with one of my grandmothers, which I have lighter skin than most African Americans. Since I have slave ancestry, I have no idea which part of Africa my forefathers came from. Another reason I know that I am African American is because my phenotype matches that of people from African descent.
Diversity- Aborigines identify themselves through the land areas of which they come from (Australian Indigenous Culture Heritage 2015). For example Tammy Williams is a Murri woman from Gympie Queensland.
When I interact with new people, they spend their time guessing my heritage. Chinese and Japanese are always the first nationalities they guess. Others who are familiar with people of my ancestry catch on more quickly. And then there are those who automatically assume. A very small number of people can guess correctly on their first try.
Where do I stand if my mom is Japanese and my dad is Afro-American? Where do I stand if my grandma is American Indian, my dad Afro-American, and my mom White? How can I define who I am from the color of my skin, or from rigidly defined categories or groups?
People write for many reasons. They write to educate, , and to entertain to express
The ability to read and write is a basic condition for social and personal growth. In my
The race or ethnicity is essentially an ascribed status but nationality in the United States is also ascribed because of jus soli in the 14th Amendment that guarantees citizenship for those born on US soil (Peralta, 2015). Essentially, your ethnicity, nation and nationality all become one but are separate on your unique classification within the census. The United States has Native American tribes that are their own nation and has the state of Hawaii that was its own nation which would cover an ethnic and nationality classification. Each state in the United States has their own culture which could be classified as distinct ethnic groups such as Louisiana with creoles, Florida with residents that have linage that connects to the Kingdom of Spain before statehood and Pennsylvania with their Amish population. The layers are what make the United States complex and unique. Words can have two meanings and mean almost the same
Growing up in working class family, my mom worked all the time for the living of a big family with five kids, and my dad was in re-education camp because of his association with U.S. government before 1975. My grandma was my primary guardian. “Go to study, go to read your books, read anything you like to read if you want to have a better life,” my grandma kept bouncing that phrase in my childhood. It becomes the sole rule for me to have better future. I become curious and wonder what the inside of reading and write can make my life difference. In my old days, there was no computer, no laptop, no phone…etc, to play or to spend time with, other than books. I had no other choice than read, and read and tended to dig deep in science books, math books, and chemistry books. I tended to interest in how the problem was solved. I even used my saving money to buy my own math books to read more problems and how to solve the problem. I remembered that I ended up reading the same math book as my seventh grade teacher. She used to throw the challenge questions on every quiz to pick out the brighter student. There was few students know how to solve those challenge questions. I was the one who fortunately nailed it every single time. My passion and my logic for reading and writing came to me through that experience, and also through my grandma and my mom who plant the seed in me, who want their kids to have happy and better life than they were. In my own dictionary, literacy is not just the ability to read and write, it is a strong foundation to build up the knowledge to have better life, to become who I am today.
Having the knowledge to read and write may take someone into a completely different universe, it allows to see reality or escape from reality. It gives a better understanding of what goes on in the world, that being good or bad depending on how he wants to see it. Malcolm X wrote a short story " A Homemade Education," about how, his experience in prison allowed him to gain knowledge and to grow as an individual. Learning to read and write showed him, how to be mentally alive in a way that changed his life forever. He took it as an ability to grow, to make a change for himself and possibly make a difference in the world. Malcolm X explained how it 's never too late to get an education, there is always time for one to change in life. It is
The importance of literacy is how it opens up the world to the reader, or writer. Through literacy, we can shape our thinking on certain topics or create original thought. The vivid detail inside of writing can allow the reader to picture the writing through their own mind without pictures, or any outside help. Malcolm X, who wrote “Literacy Behind Bars”, a literacy narrative about his time in prison, described how the world opened up to him through his readings, and how incredible his life was thereafter through his learning to read and write. Literacy enables you to formulate thought, thus allowing you to formulate opinions about certain social, political, or any other range of topics from an education in literacy.
Another concept that is actively is mentioned in the literature that I cannot bypass is a hybridization. “Global village” or a creation of a new culture is a common idea among future of global culture.” Hybridization is an antidote to the cultural differentialism”( Abderrahman Hassi and Giovanna Storti) Creating and mixing different cultures may be a suggestion that could end many conflicts one of which is a racism. Looking at the bigger picture we can see that race created culture and therefore by blending together demographic areas we might become stronger and united globalized culture. However, by doing that it might destroy definition of ethnicity and cultural identity. New does not always mean better for the community or the future. There is a big chance that it may resolve in a homogenization whereas by demolishing boundaries, dominant factor might surpass already instinct culture and its history. However, it may seem as a strong point for modern view, this may merge with a principles of nationalism and challenge national borders (Abderrahman Hassi and Giovanna Storti). Another factor that is well argued is diaspora. By preserving culture in a migrated country, it emerges a diversity and a exploration of a larger culture. In most modern countries we can see a perfect example is schools in where students are taught in their mother taught despite being in a foreign