Many people like to say that the United States is not a melting pot of cultures anymore, rather it is a salad bowl. Sowell makes this claim in his article "Diversity's Downside." He further goes on to say that diversity is a bad thing. I strongly disagree with Mr. Sowell's claims on multicultura...

Changing into a Western Civilization In Mohandas Gandhi's "Indian Home Rule" and Kabaka Daudi Chwa's "Education, Civilization, and 'Foreignization' in Buganda" neither author seems to approve of Western civilization. Both men have their views toward Western...

"Three Methodologies" In order to fully understand and synthesize the current state of any culture, one must first seek to understand their past. It is the central tenet of history. We must gain an intellectual grasp of what has already been in order to understand what is and wh...

"Like all tomato days we had spaghetti that night. Made by our own hands. A tradition that we'll never let go. A tradition that I probably will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can't escape it." The Australian experi...

Josephine Alibrandi is a third generation Italian Australian caught in a claustrophobic family tradition who acknowledges the family spirit, insists that she can free herself, even though she sees herself trapped deal with. It shows how people of different racial backgrounds are not accepted in the ...