... sexuality, geographical location and so on. Each subculture shares its own common attributes with the main macro-culture. With the above being stated, Japan, and the Japanese society is not as diverse, in terms of subcultures. This is due to many factors, including but not limited to less willingness to sacrifice beliefs, less ... more lucrative and family members freely choose their sub-cultures and roles based on their likes and dislikes. Roles of the Japanese family are greatly defined and carried on generation after generation as they were in America up until the 1950's when everyon...

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... culture. For example, grammar rules have changed over and over in the U.S. from 1900 up to the current date to adapt to the current cultural status of the country. Each generation in cultures has words or slang specific only to each era, words that fit the current culture which made be laid back, uptight, military, etc., and most of the slang ... things now, not just hear them internet, email- connects all cultures causing language to meld somewhat by computer language decoding programs, an English-speaking person can communicate with ease to a Japanese-speaking person through such prog...

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... encounter with someone from another ethnic group. Many prejudices are passed along from parents to children, in messages that say "We don't associate with people like that," sometimes without either generation having ever met the object of their dislike. Some come from the images that the media convey, for instance, of men and women, blacks and whites, young and old. Once ... exterminat Frasier 2 members of the group. In the United States, prejudice has led to the lynching of blacks, bombing of synagogues, the massacre of Native Americans, the illegal imprisonment of Japanese Americans ...

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... a wide variety of cultures. There are works by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and so on. In the years after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire, a dizzying prosperity spread through the United States, while a tense, prolonged, and dangerous global Cold War against the Soviet empire and Maoist China took shape. The competition with the Soviets ... ;often to campuses that had never before been available to students of their means and ethnicity. The literary world of the early 1950s was energized by a confident and diverse new generat...

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... , in time, be considered worthwhile, or whether they will have been in vain. Ever since the dropping of the two atomic bombs by the United States of America on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the other side of the world in 1945, no country in the world is now "safe" from these weapons. The USA had shown the world ... living in, and not just to abandon the country as soon as the mandate runs out. It is worth the life of a British soldier to die liberating a country which one generation ago used to belong to us. Let us look at a different scenario. Iraq has the weapons Amer...

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... , and the Asian American Experience. Obvious examples of this can be seen when looking at the wars America has fought in the past half a century. World War II involved the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour, the 1950's saw the beginning of the Korean War, and the 1960's saw the war in Vietnam. The three successive wars involved Asia, with no clear resolution ... to the latter two. Every generation alive at the time was affected, and I honestly believe it created a new passion for hate against anyone of Asian descent- the text exemplifies this when it discusses how Asian Americans ... ...

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