Many people from different countries have asked the same problem, “Is the caste system still exist nowadays?”. To answer this question, a journalist from Buzzorange asked five Indian friends in 2017. In terms of law, the caste system was abolished more than 60 years and the Indian friends mentioned that they would not discriminate people from any occupation and family. However, from the real lives they told the journalist, we can know that the caste system is still affecting their daily lives. ...
Essays on World Cultures
There are many ways that the things the Greeks did that we still use to this day. These things do include their art, culture, stories, and so much more. I think out of all of them the stories have been the biggest impact on the modern world. I think it has because we learn about the myths in schools, read historical fiction books, and watch movies as well.Greek mythology is taught in middle school and in high school. At least that’s where I learned about these fascinating myths. I do think ...
Since May of 2020 multiple protests have stirred up due to the killing of George Floyd. The latest victim is Jacob Blake; ‘’he was shot seven times in the back by a police officer’’. Even though Blake was able to survive the shooting, he himself still was paralayzed. These gruesome incidents have caused many Americans throughout the past few months to call for help. Many protests have started in all if not most states, to defund the police for their violent ways of patrolling. Defunding the ...
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr., while detained in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell for protesting segregation, this open letter to members of the clergy was published in newspapers throughout the United States. The letter critiqued the idea that civil rights demonstrators should wait until a later time to pursue racial justice and that it was immoral for protesters to break the law. King argued that there are two types of laws—justs laws and unjust laws— and that “one has a moral ...
Children, being the leaders of future generations, have to fill in the gaps of those before them so it is fairly important that children are brought up with the right mindset.The environment of the youth has a great impact as to the way in which they behave especially the culture itself that they are brought up in.This can be displayed when analyzing the Japanese and Western cultures as they have varying differences when it comes to child discipline but as well as have a similarity. Child ...
On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King was arrested because of participating in demonstrations of non-violent civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. On the same day, eight Birmingham clergymen published a letter to Birmingham News, which indirectly called out King and blamed the civil rights protesters, which made him wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Prison”, and it is very significant historically as it explains the rationale behind the King’s peaceful protest movement. He wrote a letter from ...
History is defined as the study of past events. In the paper, I would like to analyse the influence that Ancient Greek civilisation – being its culture as well as the ways of its society and life - has had on Western civilisation.The influence and contributions of Ancient Greece have played an important role in history as well as the evolution of civilisation since. This has carried forth to the extent where much of Ancient Greek culture has been considered as having hand in setting the ...
“This is America”- the Grammy award-winning music video for the song.“This Is America” by Childish Gambino is a matter of cultural importance. The powerful video has brought up many controversies in America. Believe it or not, there are still many people who judge minority groups because of the color of their skin. But, why is Childish Gambino dancing with a group of students? This is to get the audience from seeing all of the violence that is going on behind them in the same way black art is ...
Throughout his 2010 article Is the American Dream Over?, Cal Thomas explains the American dream, what it means to people, and why he believes author Bob Herbert was wrong in saying it is dead. Thomas, who shows strong disagreement with Herbert’s stance that “standards of living are declining” and parents think their kids “will inherit a very bad deal”, clarifies that the real issue is that the original form of the dream still stands, but people do not see it because their view of it has been ...
In Alice Walker’s short story ‘The Flowers,’ the author depicts the story of a ten-year-old girl named Myop growing up in a day. The story begins with Myop's feelings of peace and happiness. Walker's descriptions depict Myop skipping and happily exploring the forest behind her family’s sharecropper cabin. The sharecropper cabin is a symbol of poverty, subordination, and racism. Yet, Myop, at the start of the story, is oblivious to understanding the extent of her family's suffering. Therefore, ...
African American civil rights movements have elevated the style and functionality of recent protests and rights movements by defying the odds through each time period as oppositions towards African-Americans grew with the hatred towards them and actions taken to suppress them.In the dawn of Colonial period, 20% of the population in the colonies was of African origin. The legalized knowledge of enslaving Africans happened in every colony, but the economic realities of the Southern colonies ...
Stephen Kinzer began to follow the path of a well-known military sociologist because he liked the idea and the way of thinking. Kinzer never had his own field where he could take ideas or at least start an investigation to give way to expose it in a book “Overthrow”, so he chose an interest in something he had discovered as a news correspondent. Everything happens when in Central America countries like Guatemala and Nicaragua are at war because of the Sandinista and Contras wars and he was ...
In the deepest understanding, there are no true deities in Buddhism. However, there are figures who are regarded and raised to a stature to be seen as deities. In Buddhism, anyone can become a Buddha. But just a few have ever reached that potential. While the facts demonstrate that there are numerous outside impacts where different strict thoughts and ideas of divine beings have hued Buddhism, at its core, Buddhism has nothing to do with deities. None of the statutes of Buddhism include a ...
First of all, what is culture? Culture is the everyday life a specific group/society. Culture includes what people wear, eat, what they believe in, who they worship, etiquette, greetings, language, where they live, celebrations, customs, education, family, and so much more. The United States of America is full of diversity, or different cultures. So, why is it important to learn about other cultures if there are so many different cultures here where we live? It is important to study other ...
Over the generation, family value, morals and point-of-views change. In the play, “A Raisin In The Sun”, Lena Younger and her family experience different views in terms of their own American Dream. In the story, readers observe the viewpoint in which the characters see the world.The reader first experiences this generational gap in the viewpoint of religion. Mama being a woman strong in her faith. Though being said, Beneatha Younger does not have the same beliefs as her mother. Lena Younger’s ...
