The country has a lot of different cultures. If compared then some of the culture happen to be entirely different than another. The USA is different from other countries because in this country there are living representatives of all cultures from different nations. It is not so surprising to meet people from all over the world in most of the city of this nation; the question is who is American? This sometimes confuse us, but the answer is obviously the people born and raised in the USA.
Differences for the cities are the way they have succeeded economically. Some are rich in agriculture while others have established trading routes to attain food to sustain their populations. Another key difference between all the cities is their tolerance for religion, some countries are open to other faiths while some are closed and use violence to inflict their religion. 3) Inferences that future historians would make on these cities is that they are all highly populated, they are all port cities open for trade, they are all multicultural and they all are flourishing economically. Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are thriving economically because they are all port cities which enable them to trade.
There is a division in opinions regarding migration and the different views are heavily politically argues and have also become an everyday household discourse. Recently the debate has become frequently discussed and has intensified due to the UK opening its borders to eight Eastern European countries known as the A8 countries in 2004. This has provided the UK with a positive net migration and has created much heated dispute surrounding various issues regarding migration. Government statistics, newspaper articles and political blogging sites often use different systems to actually define a migrant. This can be confusing and can also have a profound effect on the opinion of those who depend on statistical data for evidence.
In this significant topic, John Tomlinson deals with several issues that range from the ideological impacts of imported cultural stuff, to the cultural homogenization process, and also to the cultural autonomy nature. Tomlinson studied quite a number of related cultural discourses. They include media imperialism, the discourse of national identity; the critique of capitalism and the critique of cultural modernity. His findings, as well as analysis, expose key issues, which illustrates the way the establishment of the idea of cultural is different from political and economy imperialism (Tomlinson, 2004). John Tomlinson argues that the concept of cultural imperialism is a result of cultural loss.
I work for ABC Company (ABC), a very large corporation that takes diversity very seriously. ABC has policies and practices in place to address diversity. The organizational culture embraces a diverse workforce that is evident in the ABC offices throughout the world. The environment in office that I work out is ethnically diverse giving all the employees the opportunity to work with many different people. It has taught us how to appreciate the different cultures and customs of our coworkers without biases.
As people age and babies are born, societies inevitably become diverse in the ages of individual members thus, again creating a form of cultural diversity. Another dimension of cultural diversity deserving attention is one’s ethnic group or ethnicity. An ethnic group is “A group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns” (Schaefer, 2011). Cultural diversity is open and evident in the United States, as one may journey into almost any city and see firsthand. An example would be Little China Town in Los Angeles, California.
HALIL YILDIRIM 014001231 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF FATIH CRITIQUE OF MULTICULTURALISM BEHALF OF INTERCULTURALIM: POSSIBLE FUTURE FOR INTERCULTURAL HELSINKI With increasing cultural and social differentiation in Europe and other parts of world by migration or relocation after following decolonization and post war era also has brought some ambiguous problems in the sense of disputes, contest between social and cultural groups. It causes to scholars discuss and reconsider the concept of ‘nation state’ and tries to find solutions to diversity like Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and Liberalism. That paper critically aims to examine definitions and some aspects of interculturalism and multiculturalism. It starts to discuss positive points of Interculturalism by comparing with multiculturalism. It can be basically exemplified by emphasizing main points of Interculturalism such as fostering interaction between cultures, providing collective identities among citizens and rejecting illiberal cultural perspectives.
In America, a land once referred to as a “Melting Pot,” globalization has been lauded as an important value. However, many of the various people groups that immigrated to America began to lose their cultural identity for the sake of globalization. Over the course of a few generations, this caused America to move towards the “Salad Bowl” theory of globalization. The end
These factors are political, economic, environmental and cultural based. Some push factors include those that force people to migrate such as few job opportunities, poor medical conditions, natural disasters etc. Pull factors are those that attract people to migrate such as better living conditions, education, more job opportunities etc. Migration has many effects such as changes in population, economic results, and especially increasing mixture of cultures from different regions around the world. Migration has had a huge impact on Australia in particular, since the Gold Rush; many people arrived from all over the world.
International stereotypes are always very difficult to understand but to my mind it’s an interesting thing. It may be very useful sometimes to learn the way of thinking of a certain nation, to know its features. A nation is a group of people who have common language, history and traditions. These people aren’t just a group, but they are a community with their own culture. People that belong to various nations certainly differ from one another as they have different history and traditions.