LP6 Blog Prompt

Other nationalities celebrate different holidays than Americans. This brings different culture aspects into communities. Americans can learn new customs from another culture. I do no that it can ad to conflicts with American careers when this culture celebrates holidays on different days. They need off different days than the American holidays sometimes. They have different radio stations vs. our English radio stations. Some cultures don't like to hear another cultures language spoken when they don't understand it. Not every culture knows every one's language or understands it. So communication is confusing between different cultures on expressing ideas at times. Their can be lots of prejudice about this. A lot of people believe that English should be the number one language spoken in America. It brings different kinds of music into other cultures and spices things up for something new. Other nationalities have their own food vs. American food. How they eat a meal as a family vs. how Americans sit down and eat a meal is a little different too. They have brought their delicious food into other cultures to share new ways of eating different foods. But some cultures aren't willing to try other cultures foods. Other cultures bring lots of new ideas to things in life they help communities grow by having diverse groups of people in a community. Different cultures celebrate different religions. Their way of marriage is different sometimes to. This can be a very touchy subject. How their households are run.
Every culture has their own beliefs, traditions, customs, and values within their own culture and they were brought up on these. Some cultures can be easily offended when their cultures ways are challenged. If I could change American culture I would try and break down more of the barriers between nationalities of certain prejudices that we tend to hold on to other cultures. Every culture should be treated equal.

2. a. George is from the gay community and his parents are strong Catholics.
He is afraid of being rejected from his peers and his parents. He feels ashamed he has let his gay community down.

b.Elena feels she has let her family's beliefs and customs down by breaking a tradition of her culture. They will disown her. She comes from a strong religious Middle East background.

c.The Wilson's feel that they may have racism against them since other white people haven't been willing to help them in the past so they are gun shy when it comes to getting help from another race. It looks though they might give it a chance this time.

d. Thomas is Latino and this culture is dominated by the men. What he says and thinks goes there's only his way. He feels women aren't superior to me. Different morals are being used here. He is a strong family man. There family needs both parents to be healthy and support their children.

e. He feels ashamed for his in digressions. He feels like he has made himself a death sentence. There isn't as much of a stigma on this as there was 20 years ago.