Essays on Cultural Identity

This paper aims at analysing the popular contemporary subculture, neo-hippies. Ellis (2016) signifies popular culture as a process that enable a wide audience to give meaning to their lives, specifically when the families, workplace, governments and other societal structures contradict with their experiences. Moreover, popular...

If an individual wants to be acknowledged and trusted by his or her friends, all verbal and non-verbal messages should supplement one another. Basically, this implies none of the sent signs ought to go into struggle with another message sent in the meantime. For instance,...

“There are three major circles of reality in American society, which reflects degree of power and powerlessness. There is a large circle in which white people, most of them men, experience influence and power. Far away from it there is a small circle, a narrow...

As an immigrant migrating to a foreign land, you are destined to be faced with many obstacles that might hinder your prosperity. For German Americans in the mid-1800’s the hurdles of language, politics, trust, customs, and alcohol set up these peoples for almost a century...

Who knew that wearing a flashy suit was capable of completely change one’s cultural identity? Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez that demonstrates the Trial of the Sleepy Lagoon Case of 1942 in which the courts charged a group of “Pachucos” with...

The zoot suit became a common sight in the 1930s and 1940s, with many African-American and Latino youths making it the suit of choice. In the same period, the zoot suit gained even more popularity, but this time for the wrong reason; they were associated...

Place names, like other names, are a vital component of human language. However, they are extensively taken for granted. They do not solely serve to indicate geographical features but can frequently narrate a story. They can provide traces to a past cultural landscape, and an...