Question

The dominant culture in the US can be described in many fashions. From a sociological standpoint we suggest the dominant culture often reflects the dominant group in society. Dominance in this case is based on social, economic, and political power, not the size of the group. We will discuss more about dominant culture and subcultures in class this week. The dominant culture in the US would be white, European descent. Aspects of the dominant culture are present all over society. What I would like you to do for this assignment is to discuss aspects of culture that are not from the dominant group. Pick at least 2 cultural items, that you interact with on a regular basis, that come from a subculture or counter-culture. A great example of this would be food. Many types of American food are from other cultures. Many people like to eat Mexican, Indian, Thai, or other types of food. These are cultural elements that are not from the dominant US culture. Music, movies, language, etc. could be examples for some of you.

Answer 1

Indian Traditional Food

The most traditional food of Indian is known and famous for the masala/herbs and spices. Indian culture has wide variety of cuisine or style of cooking in different ways. Indian food cooking style is varies or different from according to the regional places. Mainly its South Indian food and North Indian food cuisine. Indian food is famous for Punjabi cuisine, Bengali cuisine, Gujarati cuisine, Kashmiri cuisine, Mughlai cuisine (Mughal Emperor cuisine), Hyderabadi Cuisine, Nort-East Indian Cuisine, Rajasthani Cuisine and South Indian Cuisine. Such traditional food like Chicken Tandoori, Chicken Chilli, Chicken fried rice, Chicken Butter, Dum Biryani, Indo-Chinese Dishes and some other staples are famous. The staple of Indian food is also include wheat, rice, and pulses with chana, which are popular of Indian Traditional food. Indian food and cuisine are nice and delicious.

Indian films/movies

Most of the Indian movies are consistent with family matter. Most of the Bollywood movies gives moral lessons to the society. It contains mostly jokes, action, and romance. Every movie contains three to five songs between it with inspiration voices. Movies like 3 Idiots, Rocky Handsome, Tare Zameen Par, Bodyguard, PK, etc. are some of the famous Indian film/movies.

Every year, according to the record India produce 1,600 films/movies in various languages. The Hindi language movie is called Bollywood, which is largest sector and another is Kollywood and Tollywood which are South Indian films/movies. Its includes five languages- Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tulu. Indian movies are nice and good to watch and enjoy, some are very funny, while some are very emotional and romantic.