Essays on Culture and Communication

Abstract This study explores the acculturation and cultural revivalism among the Mising tribe of Assam. The processes of migration, sociocultural mobility, and acculturative change are ubiquitous socio-cultural processes occurring worldwide. Across many disciplines of studies, there has been a major focus on the concept and...

Communication has been defined in many ways by different scholars. It is defined as a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviour (Webster, 1828). It can as well be said to be in form of...

Communication is essential to human life. It is the process by which we use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange information (O’Hair, Wiemann, Mullin, & Teven, 2015, p. 4). Communication can be influenced by a variety of factors, but a major one is culture. Culture...

When people interact with the unknown they act differently than when they around the familiar, it is just the way that humanity is. However, stereotypes of different cultures have made this an effect that occurs on a larger scale. For example when a child who...

Introduction Today, people with different cultures and countries work together at the workplace, more international students are on their journey to acquire academic knowledge and more people are travelling the world. Hence, it is fundamental to understand these cultural differences to avoid any miscommunication. Working...

Since America and Asia are far apart, there are a lot of differences between American and Asian culture. Everybody knows it, but it brings to mind a question, “Why are they different even though we are human-beings who are all same?” I found out why...

File transfer applications are considered the second largest source of data on networks after e-mail. Users of the Internet or other online services use them commonly. They find a server with the desired information and use a file transfer protocol to download the file(s). Similarly,...

Introduction North Korea, currently ran by the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, currently holds the highest literacy rate in the world holding an average of 99% according to website Asianinfo. Currently, North Korea has a population of over 25 million people according to...

The Arts are powerful forms of expressions, something that is created with imaginations and skills. The meaningful expressions turns into drawings, music, videos, visual art, poems, stories, songs, pottery, carvings, waving, sculptures and etc. Art education explores musical concepts and expressions, drama through actions and...

The Evolution of a Word The ability to communicate seems to come naturally to humans; it is a trait that is fairly unique to mankind. Parents teach their children to speak, and children learn without realizing how extraordinary the art of language really is. However,...

Wole Soyinka once said, “History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice”.A Nigerian playwright, Soyinka, was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. A Dance of the Forests is one of...

Cultural Appropriation, by some it’s seen as an adoption culture being stolen away from a dominant group. Mostly, people view cultural appropriation as simply the adoption of some particular cultural aspects of another culture. Cultural appropriation is starting to become more evident in everyday life...

Introduction Gmail is popular amongst people, especially on students as they rely heavily on it. But only a few people know how to utilize it to its full potential and use efficiently. There are certain features in Gmail that helps you in any way possible...

Each individual has their own culture as s part of that persons’ identity according to where they were born. As a result of Asians who study or work in different countries, have some obstacles to overcome in those cultures. Such obstacles are, cannot show their...

With regard to his own work, David Mamet admits that “What I write about is what I think is missing from our society. And that’s communication on a basic level.” In his play Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet uses an ironic technique to illustrate his beliefs...

Within the past five years, the rise of “cancel culture” and the idea of cancelling someone have become enormously widespread. These days people can be so quick to label others as bad people based on what they have done in the past or present. For...

School culture can generate from an array of factors that include goals, relationships, teaching, leadership practices, and the structure of organization. It can be promoted positively by the focus of the school vision, shared expectations, use of data, and collaborative teamwork. Culture can become negative...

To begin with, Culture has been one of the most important things that we need to understand in order to know more about the consumer behavior, It includes everything from the influence of individual thought processes, beliefs, law, language and behavior which was passed down...

“A profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture” To what extent do you agree with this assessment of the novel? Throughout “The Remains of the Day”, Mr Stevens, the protagonist, not only explores the world outside of his beloved Darlington Hall but also...

The eggshell generation or generation snowflake is a harsh term that describes the fundamental problem with our society nowadays. The reason? Simple, this generation will have to walk on eggshells for anything we do or say. Cancel culture is a complicated, layered subject that boils...

Around the mid-eighteen century, pastoral literature was popular in Europe, and the poets and author in this era try to depict the picture of rural life, involving people in nature. In contrast to the pastoral literature, the wilderness literature that appeared around the mid-nineteen century...

In the sense of the total Social Functioning, how family, grouped, organizations and community. Considering the following: Culture, Politics, Economic, Spiritual, Technology. Today our country is still in the process of addressing the social issues of our country. One of these is the Social Functioning...

Culture is and forever will be a complicated idea, outlining the way in which different peoples communicate and interact with one another. It doesn’t just cover where people are born or the language they speak, but also their values, behavior, beliefs, and symbols that shape...

The two theories I will be evaluating in this essay are Social Identity Theory and acculturation. Social Identity Theory (SIT) was proposed by Turner & Tajfel (1979) and states that we aim to enhance our own self-image by discriminating against people who do not belong...

There are many negative stigmas about the Amish culture and the way they live their day to day lives. Outsiders can’t imagine a world without technology or in a community that strikes the fear of being shunned into you. Others believe their dress to be...

Although historians know very little, for certain, about much of Africa’s early history, there is however unanimity among scholars, that ‘tribes’ may have been around since time immemorial. Today, there are reportedly about 3,000 tribes in Africa, who are believed to be speaking more than...

The United States is racially diverse nation, rich in various traditions and customs. The American culture is highly identifiable based on their music, dress code and religion among other aspects. Their culture has been influenced over the years by entertainment media and it has continued...

Its 2019 and the word has progressed in so many ways. I think it’s easy for individuals to forget certain instances in the past, and rely on the fact that society literally never stops changing. Optimism is important because it hails on the principle that...

Culture refers to ‘way of life’ or the way groups of people do things. It includes customs, traditions, values, concepts, rules, practices and set of knowledge that are acquired over a period of time and transmitted across generations through learning. Culture is significant from psychiatric...

In my analysis, I will be describing the cultural background and deviant tendencies of the fictitious character ‘Dwight Schrute’ from the television series ‘The Office. ’ In this series, Dwight Schrute is an uptight character who was raised in a very strict, conservative, German household,...