Essays on Cultural Anthropology Page 2

Every culture around the world differs in some way or another. There are three cultural differences that specifically differ from that of South American culture. These three concepts are respecting one’s elders from “Or Else, the Lightning God” by Catherine Lim, respect for the dead in “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe, and racial equality…

During the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, thousands of individuals were persecuted as witches. It was thought that these individuals practiced black magic and performed evil deeds, the deeds of the devil. This all happened during a time of great change in Europe, during the time of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the…

The theory of the melting pot emerged during the Revolutionary period through the work of Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur. According to his theory, America was envisioned as a “melting pot” where people from all nations would come together and blend into a new race. The term melting pot describes the concept of societies formed by…