The Importance Of American Culture And Its Impact On The...

Cultural Studies and Diversity Gina Gomes Western Governors University A. Introduction We have often noticed that cultures have a tremendous impact on our psychology. It affects the way we celebrate, the way we enjoy, the way we come up with our daily issues, and the way we try to sort out our daily issues. Cultures provide us with the values and diversity of the world around us. It helps us perceive how people think, how people behave, eat and drink, how people wear, what language they speak, and what festivals they celebrate (Allen Turner, 1996). The list is endless. Hence, the thesis of this paper will be to find out the importance of American culture and its impact on the world. The United States of America†¦show more content†¦The distribution of students among distinct ethnic groups has also been found consistently over the same period. Oak Valley has about 1% of Asian students, 4% Black, 29% White, and the highest among all 66% are the Hispanic students (Jackson, 1998). Oak Valley in the Tulare City School District has a bit higher diversity score than the average diversity score of the state. Similarly, the language diversification is observed among the students; each of them belongs to different ethnic groups. The students are communicating in different languages, and hence, it becomes difficult for them in group tasks or activities. Finally, there is also diversity observed in the socioeconomic status of the students, since some of the families are with economic issues. For this purpose, it is found that nearly 60% of the students are taking free lunches, whereas the average is around 48% in the rest of the schools. A1a. Demographics Across the U.S. If we compare the student: teacher ratio in Oak Valley, we find that it is around 25:1. Whereas for the rest of the other schools in the U.S. remains around 20:1 to 22:1. The break-up of the students per ethnic groups also varies across the U.S. For example, only 1% of students belong to the Asian group at Oak Valley. Whereas the rest of the schools in the U.S. being around 10-15%. Similarly, 66% of the students in the given school belong to a Hispanic group, which is larger compared to the average of 50-55% in