In the movie “Black Rain” there cultural conflicts between the Americans and the Japanese throughout the film, One prime example is when Douglas became agitated from trying to receive information from a blonde woman who was club manager. Manager replied, “ I’ve been here seven years and I still can’t read the headlines. Yes means no and maybe means never. . . . No one's going to help a gaijin.'' Mr. Douglas is unfamiliar with the Japanese word, which she then defines: ''A foreigner. Stranger. Barbarian. Me. You. . . . More you.'' In addition, there was another scene that took place as well in the club. Douglas partner Andy I think was his name called the Japanese detective to the stage to do a duet with him of Ray charles’s “What’d I say?”
It was at that moment in time when the Japanese detective changed his whole character. Not to mention, when Andy was killed by the gang the Japanese detective went out of the way to risk his job and life to help Douglas take down the criminal. Another conflict that was shown in the movie was a scene where the Japanese were talking among themselves in their own language. This caused friction between Douglas and the Japanese because Douglas had to depend on the interpreter to translate what they were saying. From the beginning to almost the end of the movie their was a lack of friendship and cooperation between the two Americans and the Japanese police force because despite the differences, The two cultures both contributed in getting the job done. The Japanese had their way of doing things and the Americans had their way and together by utilizing both strategically they apprehended the criminal.
By separating from her Asian culture Wong hoped to be able to be more American. Her longing to be American was obvious with her statement, “ at last, I was one of you”, “you” signifying Americans (Wong 3). On the other hand, Dwight Okita perspective was one of acceptance, even showing that he associates more as an American. Okita acknowledged the two cultures as independent entities, but knew that they were intertwined. A metaphor was used to show this connection.
In "The Meaning of a Word" and "Being a Chink", Gloria Naylor and Christine Leong examine words of hatred that are meant to scorn, hurt and disgrace people. But these same words could also be used without harmful intentions and in a fashion of endearment amongst the people those words were created for. They each had a different word to discriminate their different culture and ethnicity. These writers discuss the words "nigger" and "chink", which are words in our language mostly ignorant people use. Naylor and Leong are also both minorities who were raised in America. They talk about how discrimination and hatred towards minorities is almost always inevitable in America, which is mostly populated by Caucasians. Naylor and Leong observe how these racial acts of discrimination can unify a group of people even closer together. Naylor didn't know the true meaning of the hate word nigger until it was used against her in a degrading manner. On the other hand Leong already knew what chink meant but wasn't traumatized until she found out her father discovered it.
Being a resident of South Carolina, African-American Culture was chosen as part of the applied learning project for the Intercultural Nursing class, because African-Americans make up more than a quarter of this state’s population. According to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, the total population for South Carolina (S.C.) is 4,625,364, with 27.9% being of African-American descent. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding and sensitivity to issues and cultural variances or phenomena that are unique to the African-American Culture. Another goal is to identify nursing interventions that are important for the nurse to consider in caring for this population. These phenomena’s include variances in social organization, communication, space, perception of time, environmental control, and biological variations associated with the African-American culture. (Giger, 2013 and South Carolina minority, n.d.)
The tone right away reduces the Japanese student to a coconut-headed Jap, sly and cunning, and must have cheated his way through life, although the boy is obviously intelligent, being head of the class. Stratton-Porter bars no discriminatory remarks by portraying the American girl, "Sweet Linda" spouting against the Japanese boy who heads the class: "Before I would let a Jap, either a boy or girl, lead in my class, I would give up going to school and go out and see if I could beat him growing lettuce and spinach." (Doc 6) It goes on to protest the foreigners' success, fearing that it would bring in "greater numbers, better equipped for battle of life than we are." (Doc 6) Another public source that also feared a sort of a revolution was the anonymous "Because You're a Jew," generalizing the Jew as a cheat and a swindler, always winning contests, sly speaking and greedy. "The Jew is winning everywhere. By fair means or by foul means he wins.
When “the nation changed the color of its ribbons from yellow to blue” people changed their views on Asians and “Chinese, Japanese, South Korean didn’t matter anymore; they’d all become threats in the eyes of Americans” (Weinstein 11). Russ had racist propaganda that stated “THERE AIN’T NO YELLOW IN THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE” and the narrator described being treated differently when in public with Mika and Yang (Weinstein 11). They were even individually searched at airports solely because Mika and Yang were Asian, similar to how Muslims are treated differently and are constantly being profiled as terrorists. The most obvious critique is on how people heavily rely on technology.
As civilization has evolved, expanded, and changed over the course of human history, there has always been conflict between the proverbial “us and them.” So long as there has been social interactions between groups of humans, there have been differences in features, cultures, religions, and many other aspects that have been used as the justification and fuel for bias and conflict. Since early in our species existence we have relied heavily on violence as a reaction to difference and change, and as we travel through history towards present day, we see that groups have always sought to expand their control over others in a belief that they were dominant or superior. It is only recently that the idea of equality-for-all has gained support and
Southern hospitality is the best in the world. People that live in the South are very nice and are always willing to help another person in any way they can. If someone is from out of town and needs directions to a certain place southerners will make sure he or she knows how to get there before he or she leaves them. Southerners are very polite. Every time we pass someone on the rode, we are going to wave at him or her. Towns in the South have fewer people and everyone knows everyone. The people in the South are nicer than anywhere else in the United States.
The Mbuti people are known as foragers because their main source of survival lies on hunting and gathering as they move from one place to another. They originated from a region in Africa called Congo. The Mbuti people even with their fairly decent population prefer to be grouped into smaller groups or bands which are mostly made up of close relatives. They live in the rainforests of central Africa, where they have lived popularly for more than 6000 years now.
African- American folklore is arguably the basis for most African- American literature. In a country where as late as the 1860's there were laws prohibiting the teaching of slaves, it was necessary for the oral tradition to carry the values the group considered significant. Transition by the word of mouth took the place of pamphlets, poems, and novels. Themes such as the quest for freedom, the nature of evil, and the powerful verses the powerless became the themes of African- American literature. In a book called Fiction and Folklore: the novels of Toni Morrision author Trudier Harris explains that "Early folk beliefs were so powerful a force in the lives of slaves that their masters sought to co-opt that power. Slave masters used such beliefs in an attempt to control the behavior of their slaves"(Harris 2).
You cannot simply tune into a movie that features Buddhism and expect to walk away with an ability to see the world through Buddhist-colored lenses. Sadly, elements of racism, portraying Buddhists in particular and and Asians in general as outsiders are found overtly in the early films we viewed this quarter. Broken Blossoms showcased a Caucasian actor made to conform to racial stereotypes of Asians, poor posture, heavily lidded eyes, uncertainness of movement, opium use and overall sneaky nature. The character of ‘Yellow Man’ conformed with the racial fervor of the anti-Chinese movement known as the Yellow Peril. Edward Said labels the portrayal of Asian subjects by Western authors with a spin as Orientalism. Orientalism is a textual construct of the Orient written about the Orient from Western perspective and include their inherent biases about the East. Said notes that the Orient is formulated to be backwards, sinful, eccentric. This wrongness allowed Western states to colonize with no moral qualms. Orientalism exists across political, intellectual, cultural and moral boundaries. This discourse caused the West to feel superior and that the East was in need of
Culture is an aspect of everyone's life. It helps others to understand another person's beliefs and actions. There are multiple cultures in the world which are opposed to their own kind seeking help for a mental illness. There is an infinite number of cultures that are represented in the United States. “Many cultural and religious teachings often influence beliefs about the origins and nature of mental illness, and shape attitudes towards the mentally ill.” (1). One's cultural beliefs can make them think about whether or not they should seek to get help for a mental illness. Among the cultures around the world and particularly in the US, many Asian cultures do not want the community members to be receiving help for their mental illness. In these cultures mental illness is seen as shameful, because these cultures influence the “conformity to norms, emotional self-control, and family recognition through achievement.” (1). There are many cultural factors that play a role in whether or not a person will receive therapy. These factors include: language, level of acculturation, age, gender, occupational issues, family structure, religious beliefs, and traditional beliefs about mental health (2). Language limits the access of therapy. If a person living in the United States does not speak English very well, it could influence them to not seek therapy. There is a large focus on “in-group/out-group” in many Asian cultures, as in everyone who is in the family/community around them are in the “in-group” and everyone else who is not like them are in the “out-group.”
In essence, he was shunned” (Hongo 4) by the white people who could not believe that he would attack their superior American ways. According to writers such as Frank Chin and the rest of the “Aiiieeeee!” group, the Americans have dictated Asian culture and created a perception as “nice and quiet” (Chin 1972, 18), “mama’s boys and crybabies” without “a man in all [the] males.” (Chin 1972, 24). This has become the belief of the preceding generations of Asian Americans and therefore manifested these stereotypes. Those authors who contest these “American made” stereotypes are said to betray the American culture and white power around them, and to be “rocking the boat” in a seemingly decent living situation.
Austin Benoit’s presentation on the significance of noir in John Okada’s No-No Boy was a new approach to the theme of American National Belonging, which usually targets the societal aspects of American identity. Titled “’A Terribly Incomplete Thing’: ‘No-No Boy’ and the Ugly Feelings of Noir,” the article mainly argued that dark deeds, and the social estrangement signified by noir, depicted the “psychic torment” that Ichiro suffers due to his refusal to serve in the US military, representing a “discourse of negative feelings” and corrosion of any “affirmative patriotic sentiments” that the text upholds. Furthermore, Benoit treated the article’s evidence and stakes by first defining vocabulary, such as noir, in order to help the audience better
Some people are more successful than others while others work their butt off every day and cannot seem to ever fulfill the satisfaction of certain desired goals. There are various factors for the explanation of one’s failure to compete or succeed against another, such as intelligence, luck, talents, and so on. The most important element would be the environment or the culture itself, the person is born into. Like how some people are more successful than others, certain races are better than others. Every race has developed its own culture, and not all cultures are created equal due to the diversity between them. Any culture can be inferior to another, but there is much controversy over the diversity of the mainstream culture and black
In the late 20th century there were many problems that began to arise in America. Just to list a few the war in Vietnam is raging, the hippie movement of peace and love, and enormous amounts of civil rights activist groups going at full blast. At this particular time though the was has taken its toll on all of American citizens. They have are all beginning to question its purpose, the hippies have basically dwindled down from the who knows how many STDs and free concerts gone wrong, but the one question that is still in the back of nearly everyone's mind is when will everyone be granted the same rights? When will the segregation and discrimination end? Civil rights activist such as Martin Luther King Jr. and other nonviolent civil rights groups have had some success but the changes made were slow and far between. Such groups for instance the Black Panthers did not believe in this nonviolent approach and thought that they would receive their rights in the fashion that they wanted by expressing 'Black Power” as they called it. In the whole scheme of things the Black Power and largely black radical movement had its ups and down, rights and wrongs, and its successes and failures.