1. Culture is the Element Which Shapes Us
Learning about aboriginal literature will encourage younger generations to become more socially, environmentally, and culturally aware. ... As children grow into young adults, they take responsibility for passing on the stories to the following generations. ... It teaches about our ancestors, to know and understand the things that happened in the past and to understand how much it will impact the future. ... Teaching Aboriginal history in school will educate the younger generation not to commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. ... Being aware of one's history, the struggle and discrimi...
They also worry that their economies will suffer while working towards the greater good in the future. However, if citizens decide to open their doors to globalization now, they will not only have success now, but the success will be even greater in the future for many future generations to come. Citizens should focus on leaving their country a better place for the many future generations to come....
The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact between Canada's Aboriginal people and European settlers there has been conflicting values concerning family relationships and child-rearing practices. ... The assimilation policy through the schools was to be beneficial but ended up effecting all Aboriginal peoples and has tarnished future generations. ... The residential schooling has been devastating in regards to the future of Aboriginal people's culture and identity. Each child taken from their home...
Personally, as a student of the arts, I could stop visiting the magazine for a period of time and revisit it again in one point in the future and still find the topics fascinating. ... The genuineness of Rumination's purpose and goal as a platform of information enables the giver and receiver, which in this case are both coming from my generation, exchange ideas of more than the superficial. ...
Who will determine the future of America? ... Many people have been doubtful of society's ability to teach our future. ... America's future rests in the hands of our youth. ... These generations are, especially now, showing strength, tolerance, and love. ... We owe it to those who follow to show our future how to live united as one. ...
My ancestors passed of generation to generation some values, for example, dignity, admiration, honesty, love for myself and for others. ... The family history of everybody marks his past, his present, and his future, because the consequences of the actions remain in time. ...
Taking the example of a family, in which there are people of all age groups, it would be unfair to conclude that the younger generation of the family represents the psyche of the entire family. ... Nevertheless, it is important to analyze the trends of the youth in order to gain an insight into the culture that might prevail in future. After all it is these people who will control important factors like the economy in future, and grow up to be the most influential section of society. ...
Although it is more evident with multicultural belief differences, we find large contrasts within the gap of one generation in a single culture. ... The purpose of this paper is to examine the changing beliefs of a society throughout the period of one generation. The topics whose influences provided significant changes within the last generation and which will be discussed in this paper are the following: firstly, the changing role of women and the effects of feminism on our society; secondly, the social repercussions of the religious withdrawal from family life and the secularism of our cultu...
Culture, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group c: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation. ... Our generation and future ones have the power to begin to reconstruct our prejudiced ways of thinking and behavior. ... If we instill in them open-minde...
Besides that, because of being positively or negatively affected by their parents, kids will do the same things with their children when they grow up in the future. In other words, the individualism would be taught for every generation. ... While more American generations have been trained to be independent, more young people from Asian countries such as Vietnam and China have been more dependent on traditional family values by their parents. ...
According to the ILO (2003) the concept of land is very sacred to indigenous peoples as they have worked and lived there for several generations. ... During this meeting it would be stated that in adherence to the Universal Declaration, it is important to address the fact that the continuity of peoples and cultures over time connects the peoples of today with the peoples past generations and the need to nurture future generations. ...
Songs, folklores, superstitions, etc. are just some of the things that have been passed from generation to generation orally. ... A lot of African communities did not have any means of recording their culture for future generations so they just made sure the younger generations became aware of these traditions from the early stages of their lives so these traditions became engrained in their minds by the time they were adults. ...
The global culture under US-American dominance will be translated on the internet most over the next twenty years. The Internet is a global information structure that facilitates culture of its own, a behemoth, which stores our address in her medulla. It connects me to you, and NY to Hong Kong. No...
I agree with the concern of Joseph Campbell for the future of the society which fails to put the teaching of mythology in an important place. ... The younger generation is not guided by the instructions of elders. ... Technical progress has removed the need to speak and listen to others, isolating younger generation from the live communication: for example, making them too impatient to listen to how their parents or grandparents lived. ...
Looking to a bright future after Italy's involvement with World War II, they should have been focused on the idea that they needed to restore their reputation in the modern world and to move forward with that new reputation, which could have potentially ushered in generation x. ...
Just because the internment was not a good thing does not cancel it from being a defining moment, this event must never be forgotten because we need it to teach future generations not to make the same mistake. ... This is a very good thing because this means that the future leaders of tomorrow will be far more intelligent than those of today. ...
Also by stdying different cultures language, they can find the words that have been passed down through different generations which would tell the anthropologists how our ancestors have lived. ... Someday maybe they will all be applied and give us the answers to our past and maybe our future....
Suffice it for now to say that here culture means everything that human beings have created and transmitted socially across time and space." (32) In Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, Dirk Van Der Elst talks about how culture is everything that we are taught, that we make and give meaning to, and that we pass on to generation after generation. ... I am actually saddened that the future generations may never know what it means to have a home cooked meal. ...
In concluding, the researcher Berry (1997) points out that the many studies on the acculturation phenomena, such as cross-cultural psychology data will always be changing because values, beliefs and society always seem to be taking micro changes that eventually far into the future will change drastically (Berry 1997). ... The researcher Zhou (1997) is examining these studies and correlating them into a general framework that will be able to facilitate a better understanding of the new second generation (Zhou (1997). The article describes the changing trends in the contexts of the reception o...
Verbal and Non-verbal Communication Most people will agree that communication is the most important part of culture. It allows us to share ideas, feelings, and opinions. This is what separates humans from other animals. Communication can be broken into two parts, verbal and non-verbal. Verbal u...
Myths and legends were passed down to the children of the tribes which could be passed on for generations to come. Original languages of the tribes were still spoken on the reservations would could be picked up by the younger children who could continue speaking the language in the future. ... It is sad to see what has happened to the traditional Native American culture over these years, but there is still hope to see some customs continue into the future. ...
Uncertainty avoidance is the unpreventable truism that the future is unknown (Samovar et al., 2013). ... Long term orientation describes how the society has to maintain some links with its own past while dealing with the challenge of the present and future (Geert-hofstede.com, 2014). ... The idea behind it is that the companies are not here to make money for the shareholders, but to serve the stakeholders and society for many generations to come. ...
Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are caught between two ...