Functionalism In America

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When it comes to food, Americans love all types of food from hot dogs to shrimp fried rice. In this country, we have the choice of choosing what ethnicity of the food we want because of the vast number of ethnic groups we have in American. However, when we look at these different ethnic groups through the lens of functionalism we see that they have different things on the menu in their home country then here in American. One of the reason this is so is because of the fact that here in American we hold value to different this then people of other ethnic groups. Like in Indian, they hold the rat as a scare holy animal and therefore they go to lengths to keep them safe. There as, here in the U.S., we try to kill them and feed them to our pet snakes…show more content…
Since we are talking about the different cultures, their diet it is one thing that I know that brings everybody together, and that is the dinner table. With this, most people tend to drop their differences at least for a little while to eat some good food. One way to bridge, the gap between cultures is trying each other food and giving one another a chance to see the difference in taste, texture, spices, and a view of what they love to eat. We see this most of the time when top people go overseas and different places one of the things they most do is eat with the person they are visiting and knowing that you prepare yourself for what they may serve you. In addition, in most cases they will serve what you like anyway because they are trying to win you over on their side anyway. What we must realize and understand is that not everybody likes the same things and the same people. However, we must not be so ethnocentric that we think we are the best and no one else matter. We must understand that the world is bigger than we are and that we can learn from other culture. We must see that culture relativism is a must and the best way to go if we want to grow together. We can only grow when we sit down and said you are different and I am different how can we exist together to bring this world together to make it a
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