Essays on Cultural Assimilation

Rome brought light to the darkest and the most barbaric places of the world, and if and when it did, these were areas that posed value to the strategic interests of the empire rather than be regions that needed civilizing. Britain was the island whose unique geography allowed founding a city serving the imperial interests well. Its conquest improved the image of the empire as a formidable force to reckon with and enhanced the reputation of the emperor. Furthermore, the introduction of religious and cultural buildings into Londinium served the ideological purpose of exposing the new subjects to the ...

Migration is an inevitable phenomenon in the modern globalized world. People, who for some reasons are forced to migrate from their countries into the new ones, are often likely to encounter certain difficulties. Such difficulties are usually caused by the apparent differences in cultures, habits, traditions, and social norms. Anyway, if an immigrant wants to successfully adapt to the host society, he or she should work out a compromise solution. In most cases, immigrants resort to such decisions as assimilation, ethnic pluralism or transnationalism. This paper describes the differences of these three kinds of social adaptation of immigrants. First ...

This paper discusses an issues related to Native American culture, namely the history of the flute. The paper discusses, first, the Native American peoples living in North American and then move on to discuss the common characteristics of all North American tribes. Some of these common characteristics include similar styles of music and the occurrence of the Native American flute. The paper then moves on to discuss the development of the North American flute, including its particular form and the ways in which it is crafted. The paper then moves on to discuss popular Native American flute players and ...