From classifying gender and social status to providing fuel, satisfaction, and excuses, food affects people in many ways. ... Peoples' social levels are classified according to their economic standing. ... People on the go can finish two things at once ¾ a meal and a business deal. Since people are going to eat anyways, suggesting eating a meal together is reasonable and harder to refuse. ... So, many people think exercising is the solution to eating as much as and whatever they want, but fattening foods clot blood vessels and are detrimental to their health, something that exercise...

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It was shocking seeing some of the people eating with their bare fingers and the different dishes that were delivered to their table, then and there I asked myself, "Why weren't they using utensils but eating with their hands? ... In our culture we use our right hand to eat but people look at us in a strange ways while eating ", he stated. ... "I enjoy eating with my hands and if I love the food I am eating, I will eat it with my hands no matter where I am ". ... Foods like lentils, or beans, rice, vegetables, something called Roti and Naan but not much people eating meat. I learned that ...

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Culture affects every aspect of our everyday life from the food we eat to the music we listen to. ... For example, in China they sit low to the floor on cushions and eat using chop sticks. In America they sit at the dinner table on chairs and eat using a number of utensils. ... These eating styles are all directly tied into different people's cultures and Ethnic backgrounds. ... Were it the necessities that caused people to adopt different styles of eating , dressing , speaking .. etc or just different opinions that people long ages ago had .It has to be some historical experien...

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When it comes to cuisine, the media shows that African Americans only eat soul food. For some reason, the media really focuses on blacks eating fried chicken and drinking Kool-Aid. ... For example, the media will show black people to eat fried chicken and drink Kool-Aid like they don't have an appetite for anything else. ... Now, even though soul food is very tasty, I would much rather be eating lobster and steak. ... Also, most of the stereotype are not a 100% accurate or might even be over-exaggerated like the "black people only eat fried chicken" term. ...

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Cultures have developed slang deliberately to exclude people outside their group. ... Types of slang include swearing, local or dialect expressions, and words with a specialized meaning for a group of people, none of which should be used in any type of professional writing. ... The use of slang in modern speech is apparent by listening to any conversation; phrases like "I could eat a horse" or "Jamie is a fox" are easily understood by everybody. ... To the average American these two phrases mean "I am very hungry" and "Jamie is very attractive"; but to people of other cultures, these two phras...

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For example, the introduction of McDonald's and indigenous fast food restaurants reflects changes in the Japanese diet, eating behaviors and social patterns. ... Eating and social patterns within such establishments suggest that they provide opportunities for intergenerational commensality, conviviality and intimacy that are less evident in some of the traditional Japanese fast food establishments, where snacks and meals likewise are quickly served and quickly consumed. ... We also would go often to The Gap shops, which have a large assortment of American casual attires, are very popula...

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The Argentine culture is very special in the way they relate with people. ... In the relation of people that are very close Argentine society may value the person for what they did and not for who they are. ... The most explicit things in the argentine culture: the first language is spanish, some typical foods are the asado (the most typical argentine food) and the other can be the guiso although, some families still transport their culture from one generation to another and eat some food that is not common in Argentina, for example, in my case Arabic food. ... people have no obligation to ...

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This class makes me think more critically about the things that I eat and the religion I practice. In general it was all a learning experience because when we talked about the moka I had no idea who they were and that they were still people across the world that rely on nature to live. ... This class makes me think more critically about the things that I eat and the religion I practice. In general it was all a learning experience because when we talked about the moka I had no idea who they were and that they were still people across the world that rely on nature to live. ... In one by Richard ...

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No wonder some people are amazed by the fact that the two people can actually stay together. ... Besides language, culture is another significant problem for people from different backgrounds. ... For Japanese, making sound when they are eating noodle means it is delicious and is a polite way to show appreciation to the cook. On the contrary, Taiwanese are taught that making sound while eating is very impolite. ... For most people, it is hard to understand how they can communicate well and even quarrel with each other. ...

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According to this conception, culture refers to people's everyday sense-making or meaning-making experience. ... First, communication, like what people from the transmission perspective would agree, involves at least two persons. ... Fourth, communication is the process whereby people come to some sort of understanding of an experience. ... For example, if we agree on "eating an apple a day is good for our health," then a reality is established and it is our "mutual agreement" that "eating an apple a day is good for our health." Otherwise, there will be two or more "realities" among us, i...

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As a young Muslim male in Canada, I find that I share my life on various occasions with other people, but the same people can also marginalize me for it. ... Eating halal meat was never a concern, nor was having alcohol around (both dietary laws in Islam). ... To break our fast we have to eat something at sunset but if I am at work or I am at school then I have to wait for my break to eat properly. ... People can do anything they want and also people respect each other whether which culture you follow. ... I tell them about my beliefs and people listen to me. ...

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The dealing with the blood and eating raw food conjures up images of savagery and the primitive. ... The filmmaker clearly wanted to present a portrayal of Nanook and his people that would fit into a Western ideal of what they should be. ... He wanted us to see the "dark" aspect of Nanook and his people, or the "night side of [civilized] man". ... This was done to enforce the idea of the "primitive" and take all sense of "civilization" away from these people. ...

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Dirk talks about food and the fact that what we eat is culturally instilled in us by those who raise us and by the society we live in. ... I see people who have grown up in a vegetarian home, who can not even stand the look of meat. ... There are many things in society that tells us what is appropriate and not appropriate to eat. Many people refuse to eat things because of religious reasons, environmental reasons, and ethical reasons. ... Now my father on the other hand comes from a family that never cooked, and always went out to eat. ...

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How have immigrants changed American culture? All throughout history millions of immigrants have flocked to America for many different reasons. Such as religions, foods, and languages help our country to become what it is. Over the years immigration has changed America by bringing over many differen...

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How have immigrants changed American culture? All throughout history millions of immigrants have flocked to America for many different reasons. Such as religions, foods, and languages help our country to become what it is. Over the years immigration has changed America by bringing over many differen...

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In exchange for items such as firs and beaver pelts to dress the upper-class of settling Europeans, the white people gave the Indian nomads small amounts of land to settle on, called reserves, and useless amounts of paper money that the Indians had no use for. ... We can be held responsible, however, for what we do and believe, for how we dress and what we eat, for whom we love and how we love, for how we worship God or Nature and how we deal out government. ... Since the Europeans landed, they (and we) have found it easy to criticize and insult how individuals from other cultures dance, sing...

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Historically anthropologists have tended to view consumption as either internal (consuming or following certain practices in order to survive), or external (species adapt to their environment and eat/follow certain practices based solely on the abundance of particular items in their surroundings). ... For example the Ju/"hoansi of South Africa place emphasis on having enough food to eat, and beyond that point are quite content to relax and consider themselves wealthy as long as that condition is met. ... Thus the notions of poverty and affluence are not fixed, and again as the text mentions,...

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The New England region peoples always did the bare minimum. ... Nowadays, we do not condemn eating such as the people of the Middle region, unless you are in certain business' like entertainment, especially modeling where it is condemned. People nowadays tend to eat a larger amount of food, just like the Southern region with a larger variety of foods. The way people cook is not simplistic. ... Due to the fact that there weren't many middle class people. ...

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People nowadays are becoming increasingly expressive with the way they dress and how they present themselves as individuals. ... With the growing number of people in working society, the chance of new things to come is certain. Everyday people are pushing the envelope, bring with them new ideas and new concepts. ... Things change all the time: the music we listen to, the food we eat, the leisure activities participate in, and, in some cases, the religions we choose to follow. ... When the two words are placed side by side, you get the idea of common food people eat on a daily basis. ...

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My idiom, symbols of my country, the songs I like, the clothes I use, how I look, how I dance, my manners, what I eat, how I feel. ... Surely, I learned what I saw when I was a child, my family studying or working as good and honest people. ...

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Soon after the bottle was in the community people were fighting and had gotten very greedy. ... People in the cities are too concerned with what possessions they have to be happy. ... Xi had to try to walk to the edge of the earth; he was arrested for trying to catch food so he could eat; and he was separated from his son for a very long time. ... The bottle is a way to criticize the way people from western culture lived. The bottle changed the happy Bushmen into mean, jealous people. ...

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There are always people or groups that do not share these common features, but at a high level of abstraction, many similar patterns are apparent. ... Just about everything in our society today is based on the idea that people are going to be competitive, especially men. ... These are a few traits that people from other countries would most likely refer to as being American. ... The people who work and live at the farm feel they are equal and a big part of their life is based around the same activities. ... Mexican immigrants usually do not speak English, have big families, and do not eat ...

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Popular Culture Since the beginning of popular culture, people are following the trends. ... Back in the old days, 1950-1970, popular culture started to influence people all around the world. People of all ages and cultures started to follow the trend. ... These were the main influential groups of people from the fifties to the seventies. ... Popular culture influences our decisions greatly, from the clothing we wear to the food we eat. ...

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We were all eating at the table and my boyfriends little brother and sister walked in to ask his mother something. ... If she were to just sit back and realize that we are not such a bad group of people after all then she might have replied differently. ... It just means that for some people, every day life is different that other peoples. People should stop being so shallow-minded and realize that different cultures have different beliefs and habits, and it is more than okay to be different. ...

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Secondly, when we are faced with the question like "Why isn't it opposed by more people?... When Friedman faced the questions from the people who are opposed to globalization; he says it is their problem. ... Friedman talked to a Malaysian businessman who owns all KFC restaurants in Malaysia and learned that they eat KFC not only its taste is good, but also it symbolizes modernity; Americanization. ... By this there will be employment and the jobless people will find job. ...

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