Differences of Cultures

Culture is art of living. Languages and cultures are most important thing in our life. With out culture or language we can not communicate or talk to different people. When we think about culture but what is culture? Culture is thing that connects different people and try to understand their beliefs and their own languages. Different cultures have different languages and that allows us to communicate with people. When we think about culture or language that shows us that how we are doing in our own society, our thinking, beliefs, about our culture. I am Hindu and in my culture we have lot of languages. In India, their many different cultures and they have their own languages but it very difficult to understand them. I can speak four languages: Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri. When we are talking about different toilets in different countries but when you see the Indian toilet it is very different from America. It is kind of like Japan. But we don't use toilet paper instead of paper we use water. That is perfectly fine. When I was coming to USA, I use to used water in toilet it was very hard to use toilet paper for me. It feels very awkward. Also, from Indian culture to American culture is very different in different ways. Most important thing is language. It is very hard for me to speak English when I came here and hard to communicate with different people. Also, in American culture we always say sorry, thank you, please, etc. I did not used to say those words in India. These is more polite and respect to others.

Today what we learn in class, I would say it was very difficult when you talk about different non material cultures and connect to different people. Non-material culture is symbolic culture, or gestures and language.Gestures are so different in different countries. Like in American OK sign means different in India. That is kind of inappropriate mean. Sometimes it crates a big problems between people like when we go to restaurant we call waiter a different ways like in India we call him or shout him or make kind a noise. So, basically understanding of different culture is connected with their own languages. Finally, I would say it is not easy to follow some different culture or connect with different people.
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Way to learn different things from Others.

We watch a movie A Bronx Tale it was great movie ever I watched in my Life. I learn lot of things from this movie was that how we raised up withing different groups and learn different things from them just like C did in movie. When he was young he used to hang out with his friends, everyday go with his father in bus, school etc. But where he was living there were lot of crime happen around him and he used to watch this crimes. He met a mobster Sonny and Sonny influence him a lot and taught him lot of good things. C learn lot of things from Sonny, his friends, and parents. This shows us that this is related to generalization like how you raised around gang members? You grown up like that, you do that stuff what you see or happen around you. One day when C's friends died that day he learn a good lesson from them and he try to listen his parents after Sonny got died. As we thinking about C, I will tell you that in India I used to grown up in good Neighbour hood and well educated people live around my house. So, people generalized that I am going to a good guy or like that. But it does not happen all the time. You may be got bad influence by others outside then around your neighbors. There also problem about race like when C goes to black neighbour hood they tried to get out of him from there. But we can not judge people by their race or their community. We have to treat all people same us others.

Also, I was reading about article A Gang Leader for a Day, it was very nice to read and learn about Sudhir Venkatesh's story like how he interact with black people and ask about their black culture and how they feel about it. When he went to the black apartment it was very risky to learn about their culture and what they might do? Because we don't know them and it might got any problem. Also, they all are gang members and hard to interact with them in one day. We might have to join them for few days see what they were doing and try to learn their culture, their views about different things. He was to hang out with that gang members and try to learn about them from being with them. Also, it was very hard to find a something about groups or people. However, when I was in India I have to go to different people house to take surveys it was very hard, and weird because I was taking survey about giving people samples about different food and convince them to buy. Also, ask them for how it is taste and what can I change to make it better. So, this is kind of hard to find somethings when we do something new. It is not easy to achieve or get something.

Significant roles of life

I was kind of excited when Sal was saying to sit in circle and something to do about groups. I like what we did in class that he told to write about different groups we fit in like friend, family, school, religious,etc. I love to do that because we are doing kind of same thing in English like different roles of us in different groups. We did the same thing first we write down the different groups. After, we wrote what's our role in particular group? When everybody is finish, Sal ask students different questions about important about our groups. Like why do we pick family as a major groups. who we are and explain to class. It was very nice conversation and I learned a lot from other students like how they chose their role and why? Also, some pick family, some friends, school, religion,etc. So, this is very interesting to me that how people are connected to different people in their life. This is one way to get to know each other, learn something new and think about what should be our next step to do something good about our self. For me, I choose family because they had been supported through my life, make good decisions, try to teach me a good lessons about life and they struggle for me. I would say family is most important for me and I think everybody us too. First time I came to USA 2 years ago it was very hard for me to communicate with different people, hard to make friends, try to learn more English, get to know each other etc. I go to temple mostly every Sunday and teach American born Indian kids about what is Indian culture and teach them out native language. How to write and read. This is very good experience ever I had.

Second most important thing was that we divided into two different groups in class today was Black vs. colorful. We have to write about why they other groups were colorful clothes. People from my groups came up with good ideas like weather, fashion, they woke up early,etc. But from the different group they were being rude to us means we wear black because we are down in life, we look Skinner, devil and some quoted like that show us how they thing about ours. we learn something about In-out groups. Students always think different about opposite groups was kind of harmful. Also, I would say about I think does not matter what you wear because sometimes people think about their race, ethnicity, and thinking. However, I don't like that to separate from other people. Easy to forgot things but nothing is hard to remember. some people even does not care just seat there and do nothing. But from this is very bad that people does not do well in this activity.

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Blizard Ruined Chicago

First of all, I would say about F-227 this is great story that I read. I would not eat the people just because try to survive in difficult situation. Sometimes, I thought how would you eat a person or animal(meat)? In my whole life I never ever had chicken, meat, or even eggs. Because if you think about it if you kill animal and eat their meat, that is so disgusting to me. I think they should use any other way to survive. This is against my culture, and my views to eat dead body of person. One time, in India, I was stuck on the traffic for 3 days just because of lot of rain like here is snow. We were going to religious place, and on our way there was lot of rain and all Lake water came to the ground so, water was everywhere on the road. we stuck there for 3 days we could not move or talk to someone because of heavy rain. Cellphone does not work but still we survive through. Like we seat on the car, we just drink, some snacks. Anyways, let think about spit. Like when we did activity like Sal pick one volunteer to spit on the spoon, and after few minutes he said swallow it back but it was gross. In class, everybody thought spitting is gross but I think that's not when Sal was giving examples. That means we just thought different kind of thinking on different situation. Just like baseball player, and even in my country people play cricket, and they spit a lot nobody cares so much like here. So, from this I would said in different country or region people think different about spitting.

Let me tell you, I never ever thought that Stevenson give 2 snow days this is very amazing. I been here in USA for 2 years, and I was shocked by this 20 inch snow. After school on Tuesday, I went to home and I went to subway for work. Everything went well but when I was coming back I got stuck in parking lot because lot of snow under my car. I try to get out of it but it does not work well. After, I call police to help him he came but it doesn't work out well. I was angry, and put my car there and I call my cousin to pick me up. I put my car there for 2 days and got my car yesterday. It was crazy experience for me. Even though, my cousin was coming back from job in Wednesday morning in snow he got stuck on road, he call me for help, and I went outside and snow was higher than my thighs. Also, in the afternoon, my all neighbors came outside. and we all shovel the snow together. We enjoy to work out together. This is kind of get to know each other, try to help someone and communicate. But this snow I will never forgot. This is very crazy days for me. But everything went well and I would say nothing is hard to survive but nothing is easy to get.

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