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891: My Own Micro Culture: ... set them aside as inferior. According to Kingston’s essay intelligence is not looked at as much and women are not looked at, at all (p191). I cannot start the vast differences we have with china, yet I can single out how we view women: as intelligent and resourceful human beings. The differences in cultures can seem so great we often wonder how we get along at all. Growing up as ...

892: Life with Bureaucracies: ... as rationally created formal organizations that dominate modern societies, have hierarchical level of control, and are based on specific rules of procedure. Weber recognized that bureaucracies existed in preindustrial societies such as ancient Egypt, ancient China, and in the Roman and Byzantine empires. It was not until recently, however, with the emergence of large societies based on complex technologies, that bureaucracies come to permeate people’s daily lives. The reason seems ...

893: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown What would it be like for you to go to China or Russia, not knowing a word of their language? You would of-course be rather uncomfortable and quite lost in a language all so strange to your familiar. This is part of what the Sapir ...

894: Education In Public Schools: ... spend trying to clean up and keep our schools safe, we are more or less falling behind in our education. American's are farther behind in educational status than countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and China. The teachers spend too much time on the little things and forget the real reason why the children are there. Not only that, but some of the textbooks hold inaccurate information and do not contain ...

895: Overpopulation: ... high a population density. For instance, the deputy editor in chief of Forbes magazine pointed out recently, in connection with a plea for more population growth in the United States: "If all the people from China and India lived in the continental U.S. (excluding Alaska), this country would still have a smaller population density than England, Holland, or Belgium." *31 The appropriate response is "So what?" Density is generally irrelevant ...

896: Discrimination Against Women: ... to leave school after completing only a basic or elementary education. Event at the elementary level, male students may be given a more rigorous and demanding curriculum than their female classmates may. For example, in China, many Chinese think that women with no talent are happiness. Women need not to study, as they will marry men. The most important thing is to learn how to be a good wife. Textbooks used ...

897: Immigrants Coming Over To America: ... s famous people are descended from immigrants if they are not immigrants themselves. People, like Albert Einstein, a famous physicist, and Henry Kissinger, who was Secretary of State, and helped to open up negotiations with China, were Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also from England, was a silent movie star. America is made of many different cultures ...

898: The Need for an Official Language: ... money come from the tax. Using different languages also breaks the unity of our society. People are separated by what kind of language they speak; for example, people who speak only Chinese will live in China Town. Those people also tend to hang around with the same kind of people, those who speak Chinese. There is no communiaction between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of small groups will ...

899: Immigration & Americas Future: ... present asylum rules, practically anyone who declares that he or she is fleeing political oppression has a good chance to enter the U.S. Chinese are almost always admitted, for example, if they claim that China's birth-control policies have limited the number of children they can have. Right now, once aliens enter the U.S., it is almost impossible to deport them, even if they have no valid documents ...

900: Rites of Passage: ... into their culture, their understanding of religion, and into their lives. Works Cited 1. Earhart, H. Byron, ed., Religious Traditions of the World: A Journey through Africa, North America, Mesoamerica, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, China, and Japan. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993., xx 306-316 2. Extracts from Eliade, ed., From Primitives to Zen: A thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1967.), xx 142 ...

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