Cultural Identity Wrap-up

The most important thing I've learned in this unit is that we should be determined when we're facing other people's prejudice. From the passage named"Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number One", I knew that a girl who is a Arabic, often treat as a terrorist. She first felt like an outsider in school, but later she realized that it is unnecessary to care other people's prejudice to you. For us, sometimes we don't need to care about too much about what other people said. We just need to behave ourselves.

Hello,every one. This is a poster that about traditional festival of China. The first festival I mentioned in the poster is the Spring Festival. The reason why I chose this image to help express this festival is that there is a tiger there which represent our lunar year of tiger. This is a huge festival in China. We celebrate it by eating big dinner, staying with family and visiting family! What's more, the second festival I introduced to all of you, is the Lantern Festival. We stay with family and play with the lantern, also we eat Tangyuan together,which is a symbol of good luck. Then, is the mid-autumn festival,another big festival in China.We also stay with family, enjoying the moon and eating the moon cakes together. Lastly, is the Chinese's Valentine's day--Qixi. This festival is based on a fairy tale of Niulang and Zhinv. I love all the festivals in China. It means a lot to me.

Cultural Identity Warp-Up

In this unit on cultural identity, I learned some new ideas. The most important and interesting ideas is “melting pot” and “salad bowl”. Using the melting pot and salad bowl describe the culture. Different countries would have the different cultures. Some people were move to other country and that would join in to that culture. I believe that an America is very amazing country. Everyone is same and not care where the people from, but also we can tell everyone is different. Some people want to be in country so they will act like an American.

Mexican Culture!

My Poster shows some of the things I miss from my country, what I used to celebrate and places that I like. At the lower-right side is the food, what I used to eat and I love, like tacos, gorditas, carnse asada, guacamole and some candies like “Dulce de Leche” my favorite one. Just above the food there are some things that I have embraced and I really like from America.

This is a famous “Calavera de Azucar” it is a Sugar Skull, it is used for a special tradition we have, "El Dia de Muertos" (The Day of the Dead). In this day we celebrate all our deceased relatives, we make an Altar with thinks they liked when they were alive, usually things like food, liquor, personal objects, and also we can add the “Sugar Skulls”, flowers and pictures of the dead person.This is an important image for almost every Mexican that is catholic, La Virgen de Guadalupe (the virgin of Guadalupe). It’s a symbol of hope for every Mexican, because the story says that the virgin helps us to overcome an epidemic.

I add this picture because this is the logo of my country, you can find it everywhere, in the flag, in the coins and money. The history of this is so good and with a lot of meaning.

Cultural Identity Warp-Up

In this unit, I learned that cultural diversity was very important to us. The U.S is a melting pot of culture. We will not only promote our own culture, but also to accept the cultures from other countries.We should touch cultures which different from our culture, and at the same time, we need to keep our cultural identity.Just like many salad bowl in the melting pot. Achieving the cultural diversity is hard, but only this way we can get close to the diversity.

Culture Identity Wrap-up

From this unit, I learned that different cultures should have a communication. Sometimes people like to stay with the people who come from the same culture. Like Chinese, they often like to live in Chinatown. But, I think it is not good. Every person should learn different cultures since we are in America, which is a multi-culture nation. If we wnt to adapt to American life, we should contact with other people who are from different cultures. America is an immagrant country, so there are many different cultures. If we want to make the nation be an entirety, we should make a contribution. Making the dream of the entirety come ture, not only saying the words out of your mouth, but also doing it. Having a chance to communicate with other nations is a better way to comprehend the world.

Rachel's poster

Many teenagers like hip-pop, breaking, new jazz nowadays. In Chinese cultural, there are many tradictional dances. They are different from pop-dance.

Now I want to introduce two of them for you.

This dance means thousands of hands of "Guanyin". "Guanyin" is a lady god in China. It protect Chinese's health, home, and bring luck to the people. The god has thousands of hands means that it can help people as more as possible. The dance is one of the celebration of the god. It also means that everyone has a good life.

China has 56 nations. Each nation has its own songs and dances. One of them call "Daizu". They usually dance like a peacock. They have their own clothes, like a peacock. On the other hand, their hand of their also like a peacock.In their cultural, peacock is the luncky animal. So they dance like a peocock to give people luck.