Cultural Identity and Cultural Interaction: Greek Music in the United States, 1917–1941

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-138
Author(s):  
Ole L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Interaction

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study

10.2196/15817 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. e15817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaomeng Niu ◽  
Jessica Fitts Willoughby ◽  
Jing Mei ◽  
Shaochun Li ◽  
Pengwei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Mental Health Information

Background Approximately 42.5 million adults have been affected by mental illness in the United States in 2013, and 173 million people have been affected by a diagnosable psychiatric disorder in China. An increasing number of people tend to seek health information on the Web, and it is important to understand the factors associated with individuals’ mental health information seeking. Identifying factors associated with mental health information seeking may influence the disease progression of potential patients. Objective This study aimed to test the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM) in China and the United States with a chronic disease, mental illness, and two additional factors, ie, media use and cultural identity, among college students. Methods Data were collected in both countries using the same online survey through a survey management program (Qualtrics). In China, college instructors distributed the survey link among university students, and it was also posted on a leading social media site called Sina Weibo. In the United States, the data were collected in a college-wide survey pool in a large Northwestern university. Results The final sample size was 235 for the Chinese sample and 241 for the US sample. Media use was significantly associated with mental health information–seeking intentions in the Chinese sample (P<.001), and cultural identity was significantly associated with intentions in both samples (China: P=.02; United States: P<.001). The extended PRISM had a better model fit than the original PRISM. Conclusions Cultural identity and media use should be considered when evaluating the process of mental health information seeking or when designing interventions to address mental health information seeking.

scholarly journals ‘Little Spain’ or ‘Little Galicia’?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-512
Author(s):  
David Miranda-Barreiro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Community

This article studies three cinematic representations of the Galician migrant community in the United States: the documentaries Os 15000 de Newark (2007) and Little Spain (2014), and the feature-length film Little Galicia (2015). The analysis of these films focuses especially on the influence of their chosen framing on the migrants’ performance of their cultural identity. By assessing the performative aspect of identity, this article also examines the possibility of considering Galicianness as a transnational positioning, globally or glocally performed, rather than a geographically fixed essence.

scholarly journals Un productor multicultural. Entrevista a Alex Gómez

Dixit ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Graciela Rodríguez-Milhomens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Identidad Cultural

Es un apasionado de la documentación audiovisual. Cuando estudiaba comunicación, en la compleja Cali colombiana de los noventa, Alex Gómez comenzó a documentar diferentes realidades, diferentes culturas, diferentes estilos de vida. Los trabajos que realizó con indígenas y comunidades afrocolombianas, varios de los cuales siguen siendo emitidos en la televisión de su país, lo marcaron profundamente. Luego de trabajar en producción televisiva, estudió una maestría en educación en España y desde hace algún tiempo vive en Estados Unidos, país que le ha permitido continuar con su pasión: la comunicación intercultural. Desde su empresa, dirige documentales, con la misma tónica: comunicar la diversidad, comunicar para la diversidad, comunicar para la interculturalidad. Palabras clave: comunicación intercultural, identidad cultural, educación, producción audiovisual, documentales.He is passionate about audiovisual documentaries. Alex Gómez began to record different realities, cultures and lifestyles already when he was a media scholar in the complex city of Cali during the 1990's. He has been deeply influenced by his works on indigenous Afro-Colombian communities, many of which are still being shown on TV in that country. After working for TV in production units he undertook a Master in Education in Spain and he has been living in the United States where he can still develop his passion: intercultural communication. From his company he directs documentaries with the same spirit: communicating diversity, communication for diversity and communication for an intercultural world.Key words: intercultural communication, cultural identity, education, audiovisual production, documentaries. 

scholarly journals Global Imaginaries and Global Capital: Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Spaces of Global Belonging

MANUSYA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Christopher Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Attitude ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Bear Witness

The unnamed narrator in Lawrence Chua’s novel Gold by the Inch is multiply queered. He appears to the reader as a gay Thai/Malay migrant of Chinese descent living in the United States. As a traveler, his encounters with episodes of sexual desire lead him to different notions of belonging as his race, class, and sexuality travel with him, marking him as an out sider from one space to another. Likewise, every instance of mobility challenges his identity, allowing him to bear witness to unique forms of structural violence relative to whichever locality he happens to be in. In short, Chua’s narrator is faced with oppressions based on radical assumptions by the outside world that utilize his race, gender, sexuality, and American cultural identity as indicators for an insurmountable cultural attitude.

scholarly journals Sojourner Culture Shock: Assessing the Role of Exposure in Intrapersonal Identity Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Asfahani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Saudi Arabian Students ◽  
Pearson Correlation Test ◽  
The Relationship

This research assesses the relationship between intercultural exposure variables—the length of time spent in the United States, the length of previous experience outside Saudi Arabia, the length of time studying English as a second language, and the frequency and nature of interactions with Americans—and intrapersonal identity conflict. To assess this relationship, the researcher conducted a survey of Saudi Arabian students studying in the United States, which collected information on exposure variables, as well as employing Leong and Ward’s (2000) Ethno-Cultural Identity Conflict Scale (EICS). A Pearson correlation test was conducted to examine the relationship between the Saudi sojourners’ intercultural exposure and their identity conflict scores to conclude that there is not a relationship between exposure and identity conflict.

Bonnichsen v. United States: Time, Place, and the Search for Identity

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Harding
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Native Hawaiians ◽  
Ninth Circuit ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Charged Case

On its surface, Bonnichsen v. United States is an administrative law case, reviewing a decision by the Secretary of the Interior regarding the appropriate reach of a specific set of legislative and regulatory rules. As such, Judge Gould, writing for a panel of the Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit) decided that the secretary's office had overstepped its bounds; in short, its interpretation of the rules in question was not reasonable. But underneath the legal categories, Bonnichsen is a much more complicated and politically charged case. It is about competing conceptions of history and spirituality. It is about sovereignty (although that word is not uttered once in the decision, aside from reciting a definition of Native Hawaiians) and the clash of cultures. It is less about the standards for decision making and more about who the appropriate decision makers are. It is a case about a man who lived 9,000 years ago and about how today we should understand his cultural identity.

scholarly journals Languages and the U.S. Federal Congress: Attitudes, Policies and Practices between 1789 and 1815

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Sándor Czeglédi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Policies And Practices

The present paper examines the link between language and cultural identity by exploring the language-related attitudes, policies and ideologies as reflected in the written records of the U.S. Federal Congress from 1789 until roughly the end of the “Second War of Independence” in 1815. The results are compared and contrasted with the findings of a previous study which examined the founding documents of the United States from a similar perspective. The most salient language policy development of the post-1789 period is the overall shift from the symbolic, general language-related remarks towards the formulation of more substantive and general policies.

scholarly journals Paleoconservatism and the Issue of Immigration and Multiculturalism

Ad Americam ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Barbara Machnik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
The Future ◽  
Positive Meaning ◽  
American Way ◽  
American Society

This article deals with paleoconservative attitudes toward the issue of immigration to the United States and the problem of multiculturalism and assimilation on American soil. Representatives of paleoconservatism present these phenomena as a significant threat to the American way of life. Their words are filled with anxiety for the future of American society, which is instilled with the positive meaning of the idea of open borders, and which is becoming permeated with alien cultures and losing its own cultural identity. Starting with an explanation of the essence of the American nation’s homogeneity, this article presents the threats which come with the ‘mixing’ of cultures and liberal immigration as well as phenomena directly linked to such immigration, namely the problem of terrorism and Islam.

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