Multicultural Matrix and Analysis SOC/315 Version 4

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Part I: Matrix

What is the groups history in the United States?

What is the groups population in the United States?

What are some attitudes and customs people of this group may practice?

What is something you admire about this groups people, lifestyle, or society?

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In history, the people of many temporary African Americans were made as slaves and brought to the Americas without caring about their will to live. A person such as Nat Turner, a preacher who led the most impressive slave upcoming in history, Harriet Tubman, a promising leader of the underground railroad, and Harriet Bleacher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, assisted to fight against slave ownership.

African origin changed least 14% of the population in the U.S. The term African American reference to blacks in the U.S.A., usually raised here, who are of African descent, where as the term Black is more general and can referred to anyone of African descent, including recent immigrants.

1. African American

After ratifications of the 13th and 14th amendments, which stop slavery and granted U.S citizenship, segregation laws (Black Codes, Jim Crow laws) and violent activity continued restricting African Americans from things like voting or preventing them from partaking active roles and practice within their citizenship? It was 1954 that segregation within public schools was determine unconstitutional (Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.).

African cultures, includes many aspects of musical, dance, art, and storytelling to express great feeling without words. More than 1,000 languages spoken and many different religions and tribes. Africa is rich in culture and diversity. African homes also have remarkable diversity, with notable difference across region of the United States. Families include immediate and extended relatives, with a collective instinct, world over view and the ability to sense of shard community. For other cultures that value at the collect lifestyle of tactile learning and coop grouping instructions and activities may be better as they are next to the context for learning found in their cultures.

Black History Month February, the celebration of the historic past of African Americans. Kwanzaa - Celebrated December 26th through January 1st, Kwanzaa is a unique African American celebration with focus on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and selfimprovement.

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2. American Asians & Asians

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Chinese New Year Celebrated on the first day of the first moon of the lunar calendar (variable, from January 29th to February 19th), this colorful holiday is commemorated through festivals, food, family, and traditional rituals helping to bring in a new year. There are many crafts and activities that can be fun in the classrooms to help celebrate Chinese New Year.

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3. Pacific Islanders

Pacific Islanders encompass a wide range of cultural groups and nationalities from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. Polynesia is made of several groups of islands forming a triangle including Hawaii, the Easter Islands, and New Zealand. Melanesia consists of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. Micronesia is divided into eight territories and includes Guam, Derivate, and the Marshal Islands.

One-half of Asians and Pacific Islanders live in the West. In March 2002, 12.5 million Asians and Pacific Islanders lived in the United States, representing 4.4 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population. While One-half lived in the West (51 percent), 19 percent lived in the South, 12 percent in the Midwest, and 19 percent in the Northeast.

The Pacific Islanders live a collectivist lifestyle where the family, both immediate and extended, works as one in a joined community. Pacific Islanders always find problems within the balancing traditional "laid-back" attitudes and the pressure demands of American education pedagogy. Pacific Islander culture follows different and tradition based on ancient principles that put living an honorable and lavish life style. Deeply into the Polynesian culture is that of music, dance, and food. Mush of the Polynesian art and dancing relays the story of the events of missionaries and political control, as music and dance is an ancient way of passing through history from one generation to another. This being the case, teachers may want to use 2 different methods one written and the other oral for instruction, particularly in literary

Lei Day - Celebrated on May 1st, Lei Day is a Hawaiian celebration of wearing flowered wreathes. Festivities include music, hula, and lei making contests. Day - King I is honored every year on June 11th for uniting all the Hawaiian islands together under one monarchy and reigning in peace and with "manna" - the spiritual power from the gods.

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4. Native Americans

Each tribe has its very own unique story in North America. Increasingly, that history is being compared in public schools. For example, stories of the pilgrims coming to New England are now mixed with stories of Squanto and others teach the Native Americans how to build warm houses, plant crops, and get use their European ways to the new environment. Accounts of the explorations for the West are now recognizing only Sacagawea helping Lewis and Clark and the ways in which Native peoples were turned on during decades of encroachment and violence. Accounts of WWII now recognize unique contributions of Native Americans, such as the Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to effectively transmit messages without being de-coded.

Native Americans are the indigenous peoples of this land. They currently compose 1% of the population. There are now more than 500 Indian tribes recognized in the United States

When there are similarities between both tribal heritage and traditions, Native American culture differs from all nations. The culture of Native Americans living on reservation of differs a lot from Native Americans who do not to live on reservations.

The way they lived in tepees, carried tomahawks. And they played tom-toms. Their spiritualism, custom jewelry, folklore and dance.

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Long before European immigrants came to North America the Spanish had explored, settled, and declared lands such as California and Florida. The U.S later annexed lands claims by Mexico that are present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and California. Many individuals raised in the U.S. speak only English and have assimilated to European American culture. Over 36% of Latinos living in the United States are under the age of 18. Although children often adapt to new environments easier than adults, they may also experience difficulties related to the multiple pressures they encounter. Knowledge of acculturation processes and dilemmas are therefore essential to working with children who have relocated recently. Useful information includes familiarity with concepts of feminism (close family ties), personalismo (people-

Hispanics and Latinos constitute 15.8% of the total United States population, or 48.4 million people, forming the second largest ethnic group. As per the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2006, there were 8,385,118 Hispanics in Texas alone, 35.7% of the states population.

Spanish speaking and or bilinguals, Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jehovahs Witnesses. The Hispanic family is a close-knit group and the most important social unit. The term familial usually goes beyond the nuclear family. The Hispanic "family unit" includes not only parents and children but also extended family. In most Hispanic families, the father is the head of the family, and the mother is responsible for the home. Individuals within a family have a moral responsibility to aid other members of the family experiencing financial problems, unemployment, poor health conditions, and other life issues.

Cinch de Mayo A celebration of Mexicos defeat over France in Puebla, Mexico on May 5th, 1862. Although this is not an official holiday of the United States many people celebrate on this day. The food, Mexican, is my favorite, fajitas, enchiladas, menu do. Musicians Jennifer Lopez, Ritchie Valens, Los Lonely Boys, Ricky Martin

5. Hispanic & Latino Americans

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In his 1989 book "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America", David Hackett Fischer explores the details of the folkways of four different groups of settlers from the British Isles that came to the American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries from distinct regions of Britain and Ireland. His thesis is that the culture of each group persisted (albeit in modified form), providing the basis for the modern United States. According to Fischer, the foundation of America's four regional cultures was formed from four mass migrations from four different regions of the British Isles by four distinct ethno-cultural groups. New England's formative period occurred between 1629 and 1640 when Puritans, mostly from East Anglia in England, settled there, thus forming the basis for the New England regional culture. The next mass

Whites (non-Hispanic and Hispanic) made up 79.8% or 75% of the American population in 2008. This latter number is sometimes recorded as 77.1% when it includes about 2% of the population who are identified as white in combination with one or more other races. The largest ethnic groups (by ancestry) among white Americans were Germans, followed by the Irish and the English. (U.S.
Census Bureau

White American culture derived its earliest influences from English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and Irish settlers and is quantitatively the largest proportion of American culture. From their earliest presence in North America, White Americans have contributed literature, art, agricultural skills, foods, clothing styles, music, and language to American culture.

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Summarize what you learned from this activity in a 350-700 word analysis of the advantages of a multicultural society and labor force. Use the following questions to guide your writing: How has U.S. society used each groups culture to construct the group identity? How has each group been stereotyped? How accurate are these stereotypes As united states and as unity we experience different type of behavior that may experience and trigger stereo type. They arent really stereotype for the simple fact that was curtain cultures do thing that maybe weird and becomes a stereotype to other. The accurately on the stereotyping is not true it just the way the families are raised. How does the social concept of race relate to each group? What prejudice has each group faced? The social concept of race relate to each group is simple which is the diverts culture that lets the roof there ethnic background and reputation process them. How do the behavior and thinking patterns of U.S. culture apply to each group, especially regarding class systems and employment?

Part II: Analysis

Though we do thing differently because we are from different ethnicities, Looking after what we do to each other we jugged people by what they do and if one person does it. People see it as a problem. Whenever the people the other culture see a lot of the same ethnicity does what they called weird, it becomes a movement and then the stereotype is born. This goes for all system and employment.

Multicultural Matrix and Analysis SOC/315 Version 4 Format your sources consistent with APA guidelines.

Fischer, D. H. (1989). Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Part III: Sources

Reeves, Bennett, (2003). Current Population Reports. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-540.pdf