Question

Give and discuss an example of a foreign (i.e., non-American) microculture

please exclude muslim and Chinese

Answer 1

A distinctive culture shared by a small group that is often based on location or within an organization.The microculture within a community center, restaurant, school, sports team, student organization.within most cultures there are groups of people who differ in some custom, habit, or practice from the general societal culture. These groups are sometimes called minorities, subcultures, or co-cultures. In this book, the term microculture is used to refer to those

identifiable groups of people who share the set of values, beliefs, and behaviors of the macroculture, possess a common history, and use a common verbal and nonverbal symbol system.In some way, however, the microculture varies from the larger, often dominant cultural milieu. Most microcultural groups are groups of individuals who have much in common with the larger macroculture yet are bonded together by similar experiences, traits, values, or in

some cases, histories. Hence the term microculture includes different types of groups that could be classified by age, class, geographic region, sexual preference, disability (e.g., deaf), ethnicity, race, size, or even occupation. Perhaps most Americans are members of some kind of microcultural group.

Jews had been residents of Rome since before the days of Julius Caesar, but the 16th century brought great challenges to their identity and survival in the form of Ghettoization. Intended to expedite conversion and cultural dissolution, the Ghetto in fact had an opposite effect. The Jews of Rome developed a subculture, or microculture, that ensured continuity. In particular, they developed a remarkably effective legal network of rabbinic notaries, who drew public documents such as contracts, took testimony, and arranged for disputes to go to arbitration. The ability to settle disputes relating to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other internal matters gave Jews the illusion that they, rather than the papal vicar, were running their own affairs.

Stow applies his concept of “social theater” to illuminate the role-playing that Jews adopted as a means of survival within the dominant Christian environment. He also touches briefly on Jewish culture in post-Emancipation Rome, elsewhere in Europe, and in America, and points the way toward a comparison with the acculturational strategies of other minorities, especially African Americans.