Category: Culture and Ethnic Studies

Select a foreign country of interest to you and write a complete paper on each aspect of culture of that
country and then utilize that knowledge to provide information on how an American company can enter the
market and be fully prepared to conduct business in that country. Describe how you believe American
companies would have to adapt to that culture if it wants to succeed in business

Module 4 Introduction and Assigned Sources
Introduction
In this module, we examine the origins of the Constitution and the debates Americans engaged in about whether the states should ratify it. Those debates, which pitted Federalists against Anti-Federalists, laid the foundation for America’s political party systems, even if it was never inevitable that there would be political parties in the first place. In the wake of the Revolution, questions about the proper size and role of the federal government, the relationship between federal and state governments, and the kinds of individual rights the federal government could not infringe on, were matters of life and death. There was no guarantee that America’s experiment as a democratic republic Links to an external site
https://www.democracyandme.org/a-democratic-republic-what-is-that/ would work and most foreign observers predicted its inevitable demise and conquest by yet another European colonial power. The stakes could not have been higher and factions formed almost immediately in George Washington’s presidential administration, particularly around his secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson, and secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Each side believed their vision for America would ensure the republic’s survival while their opponents’ ideas would lead to monarchy or mob rule. Despite Washington’s warnings against political parties, these factions gave birth to the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. The Democratic-Republican Party, associated first with Thomas Jefferson, was known at the time as the Republican Party, which was not the same party as today’s Republican Party, which formed in 1854.
By the 1820s and 1830s, America’s first political party system gave way to its second when political leaders created two new dominant parties, the Democrats and Whigs, to replace the outdated and weakened Federalist and Republican parties. The Democratic Party, also known at the time as the Democracy, developed around President Andrew Jackson. The Whig Party, which traced some of its roots to the Federalists, emerged as an opposition party. It was during this time that many poorer White men gained voting rights and many of them, including recent immigrants (particularly the Irish), gravitated to the Democratic Party, which they viewed as the party of the working man, the one opposed to elite political and financial interests, including the Bank of the United States. Andrew Jackson, who was born poor in the Carolina backcountry to Scotch-Irish immigrant parents, embodied the
Democracy’s identity as the party of the common American and became a hero among the nation’s White working class. He also earned renown as a military hero in the War of 1812 and related wars against the Creek Indians in the southeast, which opened up land for White settlers. Like many other people during this time, my 4th great-grandfather, who lived in rural eastern North Carolina during the 1820s and 1830s, named one of his son’s after Andrew Jackson. My third great-grandfather’s name was Andrew Jackson Pender. He was born in 1826.
This was an era of fierce political partisanship when newspapers aligned with each party printed salacious stories about their opponents that worsened the vitriol. Sound familiar? It was also the time when political parties modernized and began creating platforms and conventions and instituting campaign techniques. All of this occurred amid an industrial revolution in America that led to the rapid growth of cities, widening divides between rich and poor, and labor unrest. Political parties provided outlets for some Americans (women and Black and Indigenous people could not vote) to express their ideas, fears, and grievances and feel like they had a voice in this era of tumultuous and bewildering change. Nevertheless, those same modern political parties deepened social and political divides in the nation that would only widen in the future.
“A New Nation,”Links to an external site. https://www.americanyawp.com/text/06-a-new-nation/ Chapter 6, The American Yawp
“The Early Republic,”Links to an external site. https://www.americanyawp.com/text/07-the-early-republic/
Chapter 7, The American Yawp
“Democracy in America,”Links to an external site.https://www.americanyawp.com/text/09-democracy-in-america/ Chapter 9, The American Yawp
Film
“Are We to Be a Nation?”Links to an external site.https://fscj-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_FSCJ/b590d6/alma991003321589706575 Episode six of the series, Liberty! This film discusses the fragile condition of the United States of America following the Revolution and the reasons some founders believed a new Constitution was necessary. The film addresses the origins of the Constitution and the often fierce debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over its ratification by the states. It also highlights the Constitution’s structure, provisions, including the Bill of Rights, and its importance to our nation today.
Democracy in America Links to an external site.https://fscj-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_FSCJ/b590d6/alma991003319432606575 This film explores the growth of American democracy during the early nineteenth century, including the expansion of White male suffrage, though women, African Americans, and Indigenous people continued to lack voting rights. It also addresses how our modern political party system developed during this time, including the use of party conventions and platforms. Finally, it discusses the election of President Andrew Jackson in 1828 who, for many, embodied both the positive and negative implications of the nation’s new democratic spirit.
Instructions
Instructions: This is open-book and open-note quiz, but you must write everything in your own words unless providing specific supporting evidence or quotes from the assigned materials. Please use MLA style in-text citations to cite your sources. You have 90 minutes to complete the quiz.
Time: You have 90 minutes to complete the quiz.
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Let me first explain that this article may be very general. I think you can refer to the practices of some African governments as a reference, or you can completely construct a government in your imagination. If there is any problem, please let me know

Discussion Forum Questions: We don’t always think of religion as a catalyst for social change and reform. The stereotype of religion often suggests the opposite. In reality, some of the most important and transformative movements for reform and social change in American history were religiously inspired even though they often had both religious and political goals. It’s also the case that religion has served as an impediment to social change. The abolitionist movement is an example that was both energized and led by Christians – Frederick Douglass, for example – and vigorously opposed by most white American Christians and virtually all of the mainline denominations–except for the Quakers. For this discussion forum, interpret the following questions by citing and explaining evidence from assigned sources:
1. How and why did religion, particularly Protestant Christianity, inspire social reform movements in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
2. What’s another example from history – American or otherwise – where religious people led a movement for social change? Why was religion important to the growth and advancement of that movement? If you want argue to the contrary, feel free to do so: what’s an example in history where religion was used to thwart social change and why? On the whole, has religion been a force for positive change or the status quo in American history?
Instructions: There are two parts to participating in a discussion forum. The first part is your main post. This should be one to two paragraphs but no longer. It should directly answer the forum’s questions and use evidence and examples from assigned materials to support your points. You should also cite your sources using simple in-text citations. For example, (“Religion and Reform,” The American Yawp) when you’re citing the reading and (The Reform Impulse) when you’re citing the film. You can answer the questions in any way you see fit, but you must use assigned sources and cite them
Readings
* “Religion and Reform,” https://www.americanyawp.com/text/10-religion-and-reform/
Chapter 10, The American Yawp
Film
* The Reform Impulse https://fscj-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_FSCJ/b590d6/alma991003318677006575
This film addresses how the industrialization and urbanization of America, along with the spread of slavery and evangelical Christianity, touched off religious

Analyze Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions in this movie clip and give specific examples shown in the scene to illustrate them.

Please read carefully the instructions in the instructions file. There are many key points in each sentence. Pay super attention to words in bold and that one paragraph in highlight where it says “You do need to clearly identify and distinguish your own ideas, from those of others” etc. Put all your sources of citations in the last page of the paper. I’d recommend to make sure to include a video source.
Also to dear writer,
Remember that after you’ve done the paper, I’m gonna you hire again to make me a presentation file based on this paper you just completed. It is to help me prepare for the presentation of about 10mins long to talk about this paper I did. In there, I have to show the videos and the sources I did for this paper.

Guidelines: In a 10- to 12-page, double-spaced paper (in APA style), 12-point Arial or Times New Roman font, narrate your experiences, reactions, and insights with each of the parts of this assignment. Be sure to clearly delineate each part (i.e., use the sub/headings provided below), and discuss what you did/read/watched/asked. You need to include in-text citations for sources you have relied on, as well as present a reference list (Note: all in APA style). You must include a minimum of 5+ external sources that are peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly texts, or credible professional texts (e.g., White Paper). The following headings and questions must guide your final paper narration:
1. Chosen Community (1st generation Ukrainian Christian Individuals in Sacramento, CA)
a. Describe the criterion through which you have defined your community of interest.
b. Describe your social location with this community and how this position affects your role and responsibility to this community (i.e., are you an ally or other relation)?

2. Background-Learn about the trajectory in brief of your population. Locate and review a few sources regarding the current social and health disparities within your chosen community. You may use articles, books, the internet, or other relevant sources. Highly recommend information and data from the U.S Census and other social epidemiology reports (Public health reports from the State of CA, CDC, NIH, NIMH, SAMHSA).

a. How have various forms of oppression affected this community (e.g., racism, hetero/sexism, ageism, ableism, White privilege)? How do you know this?
b. What are some resultant socio-economic problems and/or mental / health conditions due to these oppressive forces? This should be derived from empirical research, as well as credible sources that have the authority to draw associations, correlations, and conclusions.
3. Cultural Artifact- Procure one cultural artifact (a story or short YouTube video) that illustrates the lived experiences of your chosen community or is produced by members of your chosen community.
a. How does the text represent this community? What are the limitations?
b. Discuss two instances of how power/privilege and oppression operate within this community. For example, what sorts of microaggressions, discriminatory practices or other prejudices do you observe?
4. Conclusion
a. Summarize your learning about this community. What are the meta- (or “big-picture”) understandings that you have obtained?
i. How does your project, in-part or at-large, link to 202 inclusive of readings, exercises, and other course content? Be specific and cite your sources.
b. What might you have done differently?
i. What are the limitations of your analysis?
ii. What questions remain for you?
c. What have you learned about yourself and your identity (or identities)? How has your belief system been challenged? Been expanded?
d. How has this project informed your understandings of social work? What ethics or practices do you anticipate carrying with you as you develop your practice as a social worker?
5. References
a. Be sure to follow APA formatting.
b. Be sure to cite materials from class (e.g., concepts, keywords, definitions, key leaders, movements, etc.)
6. Appendix
a. Cite or take a picture of the chosen Cultural Artifact.
b. Cite the date/time, place, and parameters of the Cultural Immersion event.
c. Insert the interview questions that guided your conversation with your Cultural Informant.

Watch this video:

Reply:
What are some of symbols in the film (the boat, the water, the American flag, etc.) and what do they mean?
Were stereotypes (define) and assumptions challenged in the film? How so?
The question posed at the end of the film is “Why does it take a disaster to bring us together.” How is this illustrated throughout the film? Does it take a natural disaster to bring us together?
Present one question about this topic

Just as the immigrants who arrived before them, refugees of war and economic hardship arrived in America seeking a new life. Many of these refugees faced a culture shock that differed from those who arrived during the 18th and 19th centuries. In this assignment, you take on the role of a reporter covering the cultural changes these refugees had to deal with when they escaped war and economic hardship to arrive on American soil.
Select an immigrant group fleeing war or economic hardship and arriving in America. Imagine you are a reporter assigned to cover the group’s story. Describe the interviews you might perform and include those and any images to support the interviews in your report.
Choose from:
Koreans
Vietnamese
Hmong
Indians
Arabs from the Middle East or Northern Africa
Hondurans
Guatemalans
Salvadorans
Prepare for your interview:
Describe what you already know about the group’s experiences and culture
List five or six informed and specific questions about the cultural differences they experienced upon arrival
Prepare the report:
The report should have a minimum of 4 well-developed paragraphs and include at least 2 images
The first paragraph should describe the place of origin and the refugee’s culture before their arrival here.
The following 2 to 5 paragraphs should include the questions you asked and the answers you received during the interview.
The final paragraph should include a discussion of your impressions of the group’s refugee experience.
Things to remember:
Note that you will be creating a minimum of four well-developed paragraphs. These should consist of no less than 6 sentences.
You need to include two images that support your magazine or newspaper report.
Research is needed to give your interview historical accuracy. Avoid low-quality websites.
This assignment is not a formal essay and should read like an article you might see in a newspaper, magazine, or on the internet.
Aim for multiple paragraphs that flow easily from one to the next.
Proofread before submitting.
Statements based on historical facts need to be referenced. Your source material must be academically credible and validated using in-text citations and references in APA format.

In this unit, you were introduced to people who had to flee their home countries due to war or for economic reasons. For this discussion, you are asked to imagine the United States engaged in a second civil war. The Civil War of 2028 arose from economic disagreements, but the cause is unimportant to this discussion. Due to this all-encompassing war, there is no place in this country where you believe your family to be safe. You decide to pack up your household and emigrate to another country. Your responses to the following should be in narrative form, including 2 or 3 paragraphs.
Where would you go?
Name the country you would emigrate to
Describe in detail how and why you decided that would be the best place for your family.
How would you get there?
Describe the trip you would take, whether by car, airplane, or boat. Who would meet you when you arrive if not by the family car?
Depending on the form of transportation, what would you take with you? Why?
What would you have to do to assimilate to your new situation?
What language would you have to learn?
How might the new location affect the foods you eat?
Would you have to dress any differently because of the weather or the culture?
What cultural components would you miss most?
What would be the hardest part of your emigration? Choose one of the following and describe your feelings about it.
Leaving extended family and friends behind
Leaving your home and your possessions
Adapting to a new culture