WESTERN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Prof: Leonardo Mendoza
WEEK TWO PREPARATION MATERIAL
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The attack on the WTC reflected the buildup of American culture, with over 80 countries loosing citizens, and countless minorities affected. What color are these people?
Teacher training course, 2005.
Please check here for weekly research assignments.!
note: some links may not work... if so, just ignore them, and find another one.
We will attempt to define what "mosaic" means, what composes it, and what it causes.
We will have a brief descriptive study of some of the main minority subcultures.
We will identify trends in minority influences on general cultural precepts.
Ask your students to define American culture- we want to know their stereotypes-
View a US film from the history in film list.
2. Can you name ethnic films?
3. What is a counter culture?
4. Who defines cultural norms?
5. How would you classify culturaly the American Government?
6. Is George W. Bush a good representative of American culture?
7. Study the cultural terms in thlinks section.
week 1. Please read this eassy and prepare a response to it, adding your own opinions to it.
NOTE ABOUT THIS PAGE:
you will see advertising in the top right of the page. This is provided by Geocities, the web-host. I do not expect you to buy anything, but it will be a good "corporate culture" study to observe what Americans can purchase through the internet.