warp up

this picture include American's flag and Algerian's flag. the purpose of sharing this picture because a lot of things have changed, when I moved to the United States. When I came to the United States, I was thinking to study journalism. I was pretty sure that what I want. After I started school, I noticed that the method is totally different from my country (Algeria). For example, in my country in the second year at high school, we have to choose what we want to study such as if we want to study medicine, we need to take scientific classes, and if we want to do another major we cannot. Thats why I wanted to do journalism because I thought the system is the same in the United States. once I started to be close to choose a career, the supervisor explained me that I can choose whatever major I want to study. It is the big difference between  the United States and my country Algeria. in the United States we can feel comfortable to change our major, in Algeria the major is decidable at the high school and no way we can be comfortable to change it.

Cultural Identity Wrap-Up

Cultural Identity Wrap-Up By Ann

 

People come from different countries and they have different nationalities, different religions, different cultures, different languages, different attitude, and so on. I learn many things about cultural identity from my classmate's poster such as Chinese New Year, Chinese food, Japanese food, Vietnam food, Chinese musical instrument, Chinese zodiac, soccer in Colombia, and many attractive tourist in each country. Moreover, I learn many things in reading that I've never known before. For example, People Like Us is one of  interest articles. In the article told that American tend more and more often to marry people with education levels similar to their own and to befriend people with backgrounds similar to their own that make me think about class divisions and I think people tend to stick to what or who they were comfortable with. In addition, Home at Last is another article that is interesting.  In the article told that a feeling that has nothing to do with apartments, houses, or miles, but rather the sense that no matter how far you travel, or how long you stay still, there is no place that you can always return to, no place where you fully belong that make me think about losing, loneliness, and lack a sense of belonging to a communicate. The most interesting in the article are the author tries to find a place where he belongs and He feels that can build and belong to the community as well in a new place. In sum, whether we come from. No matter what color we are. No matter how different we are. Finally, we are also human beings that are on the same world.    

Cultural Identity Wrap-Up

        People come from different countries with different cultural and it is interesting for me. I looked everyone's poster about their cultural identity such as China, Thailand, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and myself from Indonesia. All of them have different cultural. Nowadays almost in every countries such as in Indonesia  they share their cultural such as food and fashion. The place where i live in they served Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food and many more. It shows that even we are not raise from the same countries or cultural they succeed to share their cultural. From the poster i learned a lot of different kinds of cultural.

Nhi Nguyen-Cultural Identify Wrap-Up

When I came to the United States . I knew that many people come to United States from different country , skin color, place, language around the world . They bring an ethnic background such as White American, African, Asian, Hispanic,. Many people still keep their cultures, but some are changing  culture. After Pop Culture class, I knew that one of the reason people come to US because they have problems in their country about life style or religion, or maybe something they don't agree with, so they move to US. They move because they want a better life or more freedom and comfortable, so they can decide it. I'm lucky because I don't have that problems. I hope that culture become integration engage people to people. 

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Identity Wrap Up-Linda

       It is a interesting unit about  cultural identity that we learned from class in these weeks. We had read some articles that are talk about  cultural identity. In our class activities, students were made a poster that refer to the culture of their country. Many students did great jobs. I learned a lot different culture from these poster. At this time, I find out the US  is a magical nation, different people from different culture are closely live in a same land. In general, I like this unit of  cultural identity, it is great to learn about different culture that from the other country of the world.

Cultural Identity (Nancy Zhou)

In cultural Identity, I learned a lot of interesting things. Such as: different countries and different cultures on posters. I really enjoy watching these posters, I learned some countries I was never know, and also found something I already know when I was in China. I also red some interesting essays in the textbook. The most interesting essay for me is Do I Look like Public Enemy Number One? From this reading, I know in the past, it was hard to accept people from different countries, especially from some countries that had war with America. I think people in America could accept them now. Maybe people need time to learn how to accept others who have different cultures and different backgrounds.

My third Blog assignment Darling Pena

   Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number on

It is very interesting how some people don’t like to show the really culture. Some people is  intimidate for other culture, because some time events happened in their countries that marked the history of the country, like U.S.A  Some people do not feel comfortable with Arabic people, because they country  made an attack on U.S.A for this reason every year U.A.S remember the 9/11 for so many victims that leave this attack. Is very interesting how the countries can affect the identity of one person, more living in other country.