... I go by whatever we practice and try our absolute best to live by the rules of the book. When it comes to music; I listen to whatever I like. Doesn't matter the genre, title or artist. If I like it, I'm downloading it onto my IPod and listening to everything thing I like on shuffle. My culture is stereotyped to only relate to gospel and rap ... it any better. I believe that no matter what the media shows about a culture, you should never judge yourself or a person outside of your culture based on stereotypes. Stereotypes do not define you or anybody else. Get to know somebody from a dif...

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... my research paper. One of the main reasons for doing so involves my own familiarity with the heavy metal culture and its concepts. The main purpose of this paper is define the culture and to dispel the belief that listening to heavy metal makes a person violent or immoral and to stress that heavy metal culture is not necessarily wrong; just defiant ... in this paper was collected by and large through participation and observation. The people I've observed generally include my peers and other students on and off campus. Heavy metal, a sub-genre of rock music that is immensely popular wor...

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... offer a comparative religion class, and also, where Los Angeles teaches 82 different languagues. The exchange can also, for example, be found in our music, where much of the hip-hop genre has taken a Middle Eastern/Indian influence. With these simple and everyday examples, the global village brings more tolerance of other cultures and interdependence. Some negatives of the global village are ... . With our "Little Italy's" and our "China Towns", we gain a sense of other cultures. In our big cities, we can find almost any kind of multicultural restaurant; examples like this define the glo...

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