Cultural Background Paper

My family is one of a kind. They support me all the time. My dad comes home each day after doing an eight hour shift and manages all the bill payments. My mom cooks, cleans, goes to job, helps me and my brother with homework, and drops/ picks us up from classes every single day. Last but not least, my brother is always there for me. He shares everything with me, even his favorite chocolates. And he is the one that teaches me the forms that I didn’t get in the karate class. Even though we fight a lot, I couldn’t have asked for a better brother than him. I love my family very much and they will always be dear to

Numerous studies have been conducted on the need of cultural competency in the profession of speech-language pathology. To ensure correct diagnosis and appropriate services by speech-language pathologist, information and training should be made readily available. This paper examines the availability of culturally and linguistically diverse assessment and intervention information and training for speech-language pathologist.

In this paper I will begin by defining personal culture and national culture. After, I will then elaborate my own personal and national culture. I will continue to talk about the subject with the person that I have chosen for my cultural group, my mother, and I will identify her personal and national culture. Lastly, I will talk about my own personality and how it has a connection with my own natural culture; knowing this is important, it lets us know who we are, and how we act with people who are from different cultures.

I am Skylair Caitlin Orr, I am 22 years old and am the daughter of Taunya and Marty Orr. I am lucky to say that my parents are still together rather than being divorced as so many parents are today. They had three children together, including myself. I am the middle child and I have two sisters. My older sister is 27 years old and works as a special education teacher at Mark Twain Elementary school. She is divorced and has two children: my niece who is eight years old and my nephew who is two years old. I spend a lot of my time with my niece and nephew. My younger sister is 15 years old and goes to school at Lafayette High School. My mom stayed at home and took care of the children while my dad worked hard to make sure we had everything we

According to one source, cultural identity can be defined as “People from multiple ethnic backgrounds may identify as belonging to the same culture” (Trumbull and Pacheco 9). Many aspects of a person's life that may determine his or her cultural identity by music, activities, location, and interest of socializing with one another. After analyzing several texts, the reader recognizes that four important elements of a person's cultural identity include food, music, education, and family. One

Great post. Reading your post on the multiracial culture made me reflect on the multiracial individuals in family. It does appear that there is an increased acceptance of multiracial individuals. However, when it comes to adoptions of multiracial children or trans adoptions the issues I would imagine run a bit deeper and possibly more complex. The couple or individual adopting a multiracial child or transadoption is truly a beaufil spirted individual. Not only will they deal with the stares, questions, stigma and in some cases, being ostersied by the family, the child will most likely have questions and issues. There are a number of ways parents can help to culturally educated their bi-racial or transadopted child by introducing their culture

With the increasing multicultural population developing cultural competency has been a dynamic challenging process for healthcare providers to find a common ground between the individual and provider and is the goal for delivering holistic, cultural sensitivity care throughout every health care setting (Engebretson, n.d.). Throughout this paper I will discuss the four generations by defining and describing them, explain which group I belong to and how I fit within that generation group. I will further discuss another group which I do not belong and explain how each generational group can learn from each other.

For my first reflection journal assignment, I have decided to talk about one object from home that represent my cultural background as I did not have the opportunity to do it in class. The article that I brought with me was the flag of the province of Quebec. This particular flag has multiple meanings for Quebecers, it especially holds cultural and political values. A grand percentage of Quebecers considered Quebec as a distinct nation within Canada.

Relatedness is the socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of different ways. It attempts to understand and record the ways in which people in specific ethnographic contexts articulate and engage in the relationships that are important to them in everyday life. Relatedness can take many forms such as friendship, marriage, parenthood, shared links to a common ancestor, workplace association, just to name a few. These forms can be shared via many different means as well. They can be shared physically by a body substance such as blood, semen, genes, or mother’s milk. It can be through spiritual means such as soul, spirit, nurturance, or love. You can also have cases where more than one substance is shared.

My cultural background is American, Jewish, Israeli. My grandparents are from Austria and Romania. Times were tough for the Jews living in Europe, so fortunately my father's parents came to America in time for a safe haven, while my mother's parents had to bear the holocaust. After WW2, my grandparents would rotate between living in America and Israel, which is why I was born into a Zionistic and modern orthodox family. Years ago, an American living in Israel lived a pleasant life. I remember them telling me they once got around 100 shekels for the American dollar and now you only get maybe 4. My parents sent me to the Hebrew Academy of New City in order for me to learn American and Jewish values. Even though I was barely exposed to Austrian

In the beginning of the observation I noticed the small food and liquor stands that, thirty people at a time, were gathered around of. The subjects were all socializing with other members of the town like how a Wine Festival normally goes but, I noticed something very odd about this particular festival, live music. At German Festival, such as Wine Festival, there is no music because it causes people not to socialize with each other, which it did. The songs that the local band sang American songs such as, “Dream On” by Aerosmith. I was greatly shocked about the lack of German songs that were sung at this cultural event. My Aunt Manuel was talking to her friend and stated, “Germans are scared to admit they have pride in their country and

It affects people psychologically, provides a social/anthropological context, helps bring in financial/economic value, is politically relevant, and knows the history. It also borrows from fine arts and linguistics, by playing with words, in slogans/taglines. It is safe to say that logos depend on classical liberal arts more than just design or technology.

Nowadays, the problem of cultural identity should not be underestimated. In fact, in the modern globalized world there is a strong trend to losing national identity in the result of the amalgamation of culture, or, to put it more precisely, in the result of the growing impact of western culture on other culture of the world. At the same time, individuals naturally cannot live without identity. This is why willingly or not they develop certain cultural identity under the impact of a variety of internal and external factors that actually shape their personality. In fact, individuals’ identity is inseparable from their personality. Consequently, human relations are, to a significant extent, predetermined by their cultural identity that

Cultural identity is a part of the psychological self-concept that expresses an individual or group’s worldview and perceived cultural affiliations. The first step in finding a societal fit is to establish a cultural identity; this can be on an individual level and group level. Who am I? And where do I belong? These questions start to form in the human mind from an early age; it drives humans to explore their worldviews and how and where they fit in the world. Rosenfeld (1971) argued it is a deep-seated primal process that has ensured our continual survival. By finding others that think and act similarly we are offered some protection (Erickson, as cited in Carducci 2015). Erickson (as cited in Carducci, 2015) and Maslow (as cited in Mcleod 2007) argued that the need to belong is a basic building block of human development. Whatever the reason, the consensus is that humans have an intrinsic need to find a like-minded cultural group to belong to; this chosen affiliation is their cultural identity. A person may identify with more than one cultural

Family has always been a huge part of my life, but seeing how valuable they are hasn’t always been easy. I always try to think about family over everything. Being grateful for what I am blessed with is an everyday challenge. I haven’t always appreciated the family I have and how important it is to stick together. I had gone through rough times with my family before, but one experience in particular changed my life forever.