Essays on Americanization

Racial violence was a common problem in Texas. The scenario started to keep changing after the civil war. There had many changes on the way people treat each other and the techniques used to rule Texas. The racial harmony and cooperation was established. Following are the three example of racial harmony and cooperation in the Texas from three different time period. The Spanish Texas was one of the remarkable time in the history of Texas in terms of racial harmony. The slavery and the conflicts with Indians were minimized at this time. Indians were brought under tax paying citizens ...

First and foremost according to my understanding if the readings women are human beings who deserve the chance to develop and enhance their human potential. The debate over the very status and special nature of women has raged many nations socially, politically and economically. I believe that time has come towards true equal opportunities for women as well as the full equal partnership between the sexes (Chichester, 32). Throughout the history of the United States of America some of their citizens where denied the suffrage based on their sexual orientation, race and even their age. The women’s suffrage ...

Community of South Los Angeles

Nowadays Los Angeles as a most developed city of California State is attractive subject for scholars. This paper is focused on detecting historical events that distinguished current state of Los Angeles. Interrelation among native-born people and African American nations, and external / internal factors influenced Los Angeles shaping. Altogether, it is important to mention in southern California, particularly in Los Angeles, Mexican and Indian labor was frequenter occurrence. It is worthy of note that community of South Los Angeles was made up of white people and Mexican with African origins. For this reason, under the term “African American” Mexican ...

Is the idea of human rights a universal concept, or does it represent Western cultural imperialism?

What do we know about human rights? According to the United Nations definition, “human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.” All humans are equal in their rights without any discrimination. In this article, I will analyze the difference of understanding of human rights between the Western and the Eastern worlds and will try to answer the question: Is the idea of human rights a universal concept, or does it represent Western cultural imperialism? James Paul and Joe Stork state “ ...

Introduction

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“Should Immigration Require Assimilation?” by Tom Gjelten explores the complex dimensions of what it means to be “American” through the experience of one Salvadoran immigrant and several theorists’ views of assimilation. Gjelten focuses specifically on the experience of Hispanic immigrants to the United States, as well as the political and cultural aspects of “American identity” (Gjelten 4). I agree with Gjentle’s assertion that what it means to be an American is not as simple as citizenship, but I do not agree with his assessment that “ ‘Americanization’ brought certain obligations” (Gjelten 5). I agree that American identity is composed ...

Q.1.Cross-cultural psychology is a branch of psychology that tries to explain how characteristics of certain people including their behaviors, beliefs, values and way of perceiving certain things affect our way of life or others in a certain community. According to Ethan (2010) in the article ‘The Americanization of Mental illness’, he argues that according to research, mental diseases and diversity located across cultures have changed with time and in different places. He also describes mental illness as involving the mind and the brain therefore; one has less control over it. In addition, he argues that, mental illness can be brought about ...

Westernization through Commerce: Mcdonadization

Westernization is perceived to be the slow but sure process by which western countries, especially the English speaking, spread their way of life into other countries. Integration of the American and British way of life into foreign cultures has been perceived to mean westernization, where almost all aspects of culture in the foreign countries were being affected by the new culture. Recently, the trend seems to take a ne direction, where the American way of life or the so called Americanization, has taken the frontal stage. American culture is slowly being integrated into the cultures of other nations, including the ...