The Chicano People Gloria Anzaldua writes about a borderland. Thisborderland? is what she explains as where two or more cultures meet with each other. Two essays in which she wrote are Entering into the Serpent and How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Both of these essays are written in English and Spanish,...

In Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of the Contact Zone", she discusses the association of a less powerful civilization, the Andean's, and a powerful, dominant civilization, the Spanish. The Spaniards' lack of knowledge of the Andean civilization prevented them from realizing their true culture and made t...

Autoethnography In "Arts of the Contact Zone," Mary Louise Pratt introduces a term very unfamiliar to many people. This term, autoethnography, means the way in which subordinate peoples present themselves in ways that their dominants have represented them. Therefore, autoethnography is not...

We know most foreign cultures, and much of our own culture, by reputation only. Actually, we have an "image" of the English, Scottish and Irish, Belgian, French or Spanish national character. Even though we personally may know a handful of people from those countries, we cannot evaluate how "typical...

Chapter 1 synopsis and response Although many people believe that the Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus, there were many people here before his arrival. These people were native Indian tribes such as the Aztecs and the Anasazi. These native people were very civilized. When the ...

Tailgates as a Cultural Contact Zone "Arts of the Contact Zone" by Mary Louise Pratt is an article that talks about how critical and history-making it is when different cultures meet for the first time. She describes this moment with her coined phrase, the "contact zone". She gives the perfect exa...

On Friday night, November 12th, I attended the lecture about Art and Architecture around the world, given by Dr. Irini Vallera-Rickerson. Being that I am very interested in both art and architecture, I was very excited to see different cultures\' forms of these subjects. Dr. Irini Vallera-Rickerso...

As the beautiful bright colors of a rainbow appear it reminds me of a wonderful teacher that we have here in Council High School. The teacher we have here teaches many classes such as Spanish, World Humanities, Speech, and Geography. This person always has so much energy, is an awesome teacher, and...

The Melting Pot. In our society today America consists of a lot of different people. All of these people are of different cultures, race, and religions. Even though they have many differences they all live and work together. Bringing together these people from diverse nationalities and making the...

During the 15th and 16th centuries around the world, the lure of economic opportunity, heroism, and adventure tempted explorers from Europe to travel hundreds of miles to explore the worlds that existed outside their own. What they discovered upon arriving at their destinations, was that these new l...

CLASH OF CULTURES The demography and cultural attitudes of the U.S. population are changing. Current statistical research shows that one out of four Americans is of Hispanic origins or a person of color. They would constitute the majority of the American population by the middle of th...

Westernization vs. Latin America Ever since Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in the famous year of 1492, the "New" world encountered new teachings and beliefs that challenged their traditional ones. Spanish conquistadors undertook a colonization of the Americas which would determine the...

U.S. 1 E #1 Cultural cross-fertilization is the foundation on which the United States sits and has sat for hundreds of years. It is the mixing of cultures (English, African, Scots-Irish, Native American, etc.) that inevitably occurs when different groups of people live in t...

We should look at the differences of the world and try to learn from them. All people have their good points and bad points. We live in a world that is not all white, all black, or not even all yellow. We live in a world where all races interact among themselves. The university in the United St...

Culture Disagreements The film "lone Star" takes place in Texas, in a town called River Fort. In this town there are a mixture of cultures and co-cultures that are shown throughout the entire movie. Three of the major cultures and co-cultures are the Americans (Anglos), Mexicans, and ...

Cabeza de Vaca learned to communicate with the Spaniards and also learned to believe in some of their Christian values, including faith healing. The Spaniards learned to live within the culture of the indigenous people, learning to eat those things that were eaten by the local Indians, practice wit...

Balancing Two Cultures I was born and raised in the United States but still deeply rooted in my Mexican culture. My parents did everything they knew to help my brothers and I learn and respect our Mexicanculture. Born into American culture but raised by immigrant parents, often was difficult for...

Culture is what keeps a society together so that it can procreate and survive from one generation to another. It includes a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that members use to deal with their world and with one another and that are transmitted through learning. Do...

FILIPINO PSYCHOLOGY WRITTEN EXAMI.D. NO 9210356We have discussed about making a research on the psychology of the Filipinos, and the field I chose is on Personality. Much has been written and many research studies conducted on Filipino personality. But previous literatures have discussed related the...

Immigrants by Pat MoraImmigrants and their struggle to acceptanceIn the poem "Immigrants" by Pat Mora, is about a family striving for a better future for their children. The poem demonstrates a desperate need of an immigrating family searching for acceptance in their new country. The parents make fo...

"Is Multiculturalism Contributing a Stronger or Weaker Australia?"I do believe that multiculturalism is contributing a stronger Australia.Definition of MulticulturalismGenerally, multiculturalism is the idea of diversity of cultural and ethnic. While the term ¥multiculturalism' is used to describe ...

FIVE PERSPECTIVES00.00Introduction00.01The purpose of this paper is to focus on history and culture. This is also the required paper four for English composition 1301.00.02The thesis is this that this essay analyzes and interprets five essays on history and culture in terms of understanding the mea...