When people first start working with someone they notice the person’s surface culture, but overtime people become aware of the deeper cultural differences, which is mostly out of conscious awareness, such as expectations, attitudes, values, assumptions, and beliefs. I made a visual representation of my culture, which allowed me to learn more about my family and I.
I chose to represent my culture by making a booklet, because in my family, we think that reading is an important part of our daily lives. Also the front of the booklet would be used to represent my surface culture, while the inside is the representation of my deep culture. To create this booklet, the first thing I did was ask my mom for her views on the elements of deep
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I will go over each photo and symbol, up to down, explaining how it represents my culture. On the front cover, the first photo is fried rice, a stir-fried rice dish with eggs, shrimp, peas, carrots, corn, typically served at Hong Kong cafes. Rice is a very quintessential food in our family and is definitely part of my culture, since my family has eaten it for decades. Below, there is a photograph of mooncakes, a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten in my family during the Moon Festival. The festival is a custom for me and my family, moon gazing and appreciation, while mooncakes are regarded as an amazing delicacy every year. Under the mooncakes is a picture of sticky rice cakes. My family celebrates Chinese New Year and a lot of traditional foods are eaten because they symbolize wealth or prosperity. These cakes is a part of my surface culture, since what my family eats on important occasions is part of my culture. Beneath that, there is a picture of rice dumplings, glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings, wrapped in large flat leaves, and cooked by steaming or boiling. We traditionally eat them during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is in June. The food my family and I eat is a very important aspect to our surface culture - cultural norms other people can easily identify in my family. Food is something that is part of most people’s surface …show more content…
First, there is a photo of a lion dance, a traditional dance in Chinese culture. This is usually performed during the Chinese New Year, and it is a performance that represents my surface culture since it is part of my heritage. Performing arts is mostly part of everyone's surface culture, because it brings friends and family together. Below, there is a picture of a tile-based game, Mahjong, which has been played by my parents and grandparents for dozens of years. My mom and grandma still play this game often because it is their way of living, their surface culture. Mahjong is definitely part of many Asians’ surface culture. Under, I put a photo of some Hong Kong dramas. My family was born in Hong Kong and they watch televised dramatic programming from Hong Kong, which help contribute to a unique cultural identity among the Hong Kong population and serve as a cultural resource for the Cantonese Chinese speaking community. Television and drama is part of the cultures of many people from Hong Kong, like my parents and grandparents. The history of Hong Kong plays a huge role in developing my surface culture. The reason for most of my culture is because of being a Hong Kong Canadian. My parents immigrated to Canada because of fears concerning the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong. Because of the significance of my heritage, I included a photo of the city of a
Culture is a unique way to express the way one shows the world and others how different each one is. Culture affects the way one views the world and others. This is demonstrated in the stories “Ethnic Hash” by Patricia Williams, “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora, and “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau. These stories come together to show examples of how people of different cultures are viewed by others as different. Mora, Williams, and Rau all have very unique styles, and this is shown throughout the following quotes.
The internet is our conduit for accessing a wide variety of information. In his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr discusses how the use of the internet affects our thought process in being unable to focus on books or longer pieces of writing. The author feels that “someone, or something, has been tinkering with [his] brain” over the past few years (Carr 731). While he was easily able to delve into books and longer articles, Carr noticed a change in his research techniques after starting to use the internet. He found that his “concentration often [started] to drift after two or three pages” and it was a struggle to go back to the text (Carr 732). His assertion is that the neural circuits in his brain have changed as a result of surfing endlessly on the internet doing research. He supports this statement by explaining how his fellow writers have had similar experiences in being unable to maintain their concentrations. In analyzing Carr’s argument, I disagree that the internet is slowly degrading our capacity for deep reading and thinking, thereby making us dumber. The Web and Google, indeed, are making us smarter by allowing us access to information through a rapid exchange of ideas and promoting the creativity and individualization of learning.
Although concerns about cultural appropriating cultural objects such as bindis, war bonnets, and kimonos have been receiving more attention, the effects of cultural tourism of modern Asian subcultures has been relatively ignored. This lack of attention may be due to the assumption of modernity as Western or a lack of an object that bears significant cultural meaning to the ethnic culture as a whole. However, if the potential effects are left ignored, cultural tourism of modern Asian subcultures may perpetuate harmful constructions of race. The visual analysis of Gwen Stefani and Avril Lavinge’s cultural appropriation of Harajuku culture reveals that it not only reaffirms Asian American female submissiveness and Asian American invisibility, but it also constructs meanings of race and whiteness that excludes American cultural citizenship from Asian Americans.
Culture plays an very important part in everyday society. What we eat, what we wear, the music we listen to, even the ...
I classify my race, ethnicity, and culture as a white, Irish-Italian- American, woman. My mother was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and my paternal grandparents are from Sicily, Italy. I imagine being first generation Irish and second generation Italian helps me relate with my ethnicity.
I definitely identify most with modern American culture. Although I am half Hispanic and half white, I was raised more “white” than Hispanic (e.g. food, language, holidays, music, etc.). On the surface you can see a white American, English speaking, femininely dressed young lady, but I am much more than what is on the outside. Like I stated earlier I was raised more “white”, but I still identify a little with my Hispanic culture. In this paper I will be addressing 10 surface and 10 deep aspects of my cultural identity.
Everyone has a way to view the world around him or her, either through experience or religion. Nevertheless, all of those ways of viewing the world all ties down to culture, where it defines a person’s background, personality, and history/experiences. With each person’s having their own unique culture that only belongs to them, and no one else. Such as: a relationship between a mother and her daughter, the comparison between two sisters, and how one is considered as a human being while the other is marked as an unknown species.
How does one represent their culture consistently? Culture is a person’s background and beliefs. Culture is very important for a family’s heritage. One should follow their culture and heritage. In the three texts, “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker, “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, and “An Indian Fathers Plea,” by Robert Lake; represents culture informs the way one views the world and others.
This work is very important to me because it highlights the importance of cultural identity and how this is continually formulated in spite of the dramatic rate at which technology is taking over every aspect of my life. I particularly find it interesting that even with the proliferation of devices and new media, I am not able to completely let go of what I regard as memories that define my cultural identity. These memories come from experiences and development of oneself. Cultural learning, also called cultural transmission, is the way a group of people or animals within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on information. Learning styles are greatly influenced by how a culture socializes with its children and young people.
Who am I; my beliefs, values, morals, and views on society have assisted in molding me into the person that I am considered to be today. I was raced with specifics values, traditions, and norms. Being raised in a small town made being socially aware very easy. I was raised under the southern Baptist Christian religion. Church was always the same and it had a majority of women in attendance although the men and elderly people ran the church overall. It was always the same, repetitive habits and events that occurred in my town but after a while I became accustomed to always being near or known by others.
To elaborate, it demonstrates the obligation to cherish our memorable times and appreciate family. Additionally, these ethnic traditions helped me realize the important norms of my cultural identity that I own, rather than the norms that are not components of my cultural
I built upon my cross-cultural experiences as I befriended exchange students from Belgium, Japan, and Korea. Each time, the friendships enriched my appreciation and understanding of not only my own culture, but the very concept of culture. What falls under the cultural blanket can vary from person to person, and I found it to be very interesting that while one person could claim lan...
To conclude, cultures are a major part of our lives and they constitute the image we see the world in. cultures can sometimes influence us, even in ways we don’t expect. Sometimes we find ourselves forced in cultures with negative stereotypes but that does not mean we should be ashamed of those cultural groups but rather embrace our culture and stray from the negative characteristics of that
Culture has a big impact on how we all fit in as individuals in today’s society, and since this assignment is about that I decided to include some of my own experiences to illustrate my point of view and compare it with those of my classmates and some of the readings.
The class activity was simple: draw a self-portrait. As Ms. Caldera began to look through her students' work, one stood out to her. The drawing was of a young fair-skinned, blond-hair, and blue-eyed girl. Normally this would not be a problem, but in this case it was. The girl who had drawn herself was actually quite the opposite: rich dark skin, brown hair, and brown eyes (Caldera). Considering that the United States is such a large melting pot of cultures, it is normal for children to have difficulty balancing between two cultures. Culture, is really important for a child's development because it ultimately influences their morals and values. Although it is difficult for children to balance the traditions and such of two cultures, they are recompensed with a greater knowledge about the world, and understanding of people.