Question

Your assignment is to examine the identity and cultural structure of a non-U.S. Cultural group in the following areas:

1. Give a brief history of the culture - this history should include information that lead to major changes within the cultural behaviors or the group.

2. Give a description of the culture's worldview - multiple views may be present. Include values, belief and social practices.

3. What is the primary language of the culture and how is it used? Discuss verbal and nonverbal language usage.

4  Describe the cultural role of family and the family structure.

5. Describe how this culture views and handles conflict.

6. Examine the cultural traditions, include how the the culture uses different foods to celebrate.

Answer 1

1, culture is a human lifestyle with a group of people that wider the social group, that make interact with each other. it is a belief and artifacts of a group towards the social structure. cultural history tells about human past life and place, their beliefs, ideas, and experience in everyday life. it differs with attitude, values, prejudices and rituals, and practice. culture history shapes our understanding of the world. culture invented many years ago, in 19th-century British anthropologist Edward Tylor originated the idea of culture that includes the moral, beliefs, law, and custom. culture is a behavior that is different among the various populations of people. cultural differences vary with beliefs, languages, practice, and expression among specific ethnicity, race, or national origin.
2, culture worldview focus on individual behavior that causes conflicts with various behavior, attitudes, and moral and beliefs within their group. identity are part of every human life in the culture worldwide, it makes sense of identity that provide information for us. different ideas, meaning, goals that make conflicts. beliefs and assumptions from everyone make sense of experience that hidden with language and traditions of the society, this culture has a set of goals and rules around us to share the cultural meaning. cultural values, beliefs, and social practices from various cultures marked as a special culture within their society. The US has individual culture, non-US culture are collectivist, they are focus on group and group relationship is a major value for them.
3, the first language is English and the second language is Spanish and french. the non-american group mixed the language Spanish, English at home. Spanish language used by mass immigration from Latin Americans. they used nonverbal communication like eye contact, hand movements, touch, gestures, and facial expressions, that differ from one culture to another. verbal communication using language by written messages and sign language and code information that focus on a particular language.
4, family structure mostly nuclear family and decrease of extended families, they are mostly unmarried, remarried, divorce families, single mothers, and homosexual families. family system change in different cultures. they provide more preference for blood relation and respecting family members.