OUR CULTURE - USA

1) I favor cultural relativism but I tend to be more ethnocentrism. The famous quote “you don’t know a person until you walked in their shoes” means that one doesn’t understand what someone else is going through. It is harder to look at things from someone else views. We all have stereotypes about people until we get to know them differently.  We judge people based on how they dress or act. The society we live in is very judgmental. A lot of problems arise from stereotyping. It would be an ideal world if everyone thought in terms of culture relativism. There are many to people than what is on the surface. People can only relate to things that they encountered. There are many different cultures in the world. It is much more than American’s traditions and beliefs. One has to be opened to new ideas and beliefs without being bias about their own culture. Who wouldn’t want to live in a judge free world?

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2) Miami, Florida is a heavy immigrant city.  Immigrants are starting to expand all over the United States. I remember visiting Florida and getting on an elevator. When I got onto the elevator I would try and speak to the people on the elevator. They would pretend that they didn’t know how to speak English but as soon as I got out of the elevator I heard them speaking English. Immigrants stick together with one another. Since, there is no language of the United States I feel as though the United States will see more Spanish speaking people. I want to learn to speak Spanish. Since, the government has no control over the Spanish speaking people they will come here to better their lives. As more Spanish speaking people come to the United States the average person like me will have to have a Spanish speaking degree. In order to be able to speak to a Spanish people someone in my field will have to know how to communicate with them. This will give bilingual people a job edge. They will be more likely to get hired over a one language person. In order for the United States citizens to compete for jobs we will have no other choice but to learn Spanish. Just how rapidly Spanish immigrants have taken over Miami they will do the same with the rest of the United States. 

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