Race, Ethnicity, Human variation
Race is someone’s background. It is a common origin or relatives a group of people shares. Ethnicity is the relationship of an individual to a group of people or culture. Human variation is the different of people from cultural with different perspectives and physical perspectives. In my opinion, race does exist. It exists because it determines who you are. Should race exist? I think that race should exist because race sets the differences among individual with in cultures, and beliefs about human differences. Without race we wouldn’t have culture and human differences and we won’t have anything unique about our culture and ourselves. The importance of having race in a culture has a positive and negative side. The positive side is race helps our culture and helps us know how to act in public. The negative side of race is the people treated differently because of race. Example in history Blacks were put down because of their skin color. Today everyone is equal. We are defined as one. Physical and cultural perspectives have different views on race, ethnicity, and human variation.
The physical perspective of human variation is no one needs to look the same. For example, not every Turkish person looks the same. Race of physical perspective is the skin color and difference body shapes. Example most of west side of Turkeys people are darker compared to the east side; this is psychical perspective. If you want to identify race by just the skin you can’t because that is just a biological perspective and DNA. To identify someone you could say in India women often wear a dress but not race. Ethnicity is shared in cultural practices and perspectives that set a group of people apart from one another. The examples of ethnicity would be the same as race.
Culture is passed on from our grandmother and fathers to us. Cultural perspectives of human variation are the genetic and physical differences in everyone. Ethnicity is shared cultural practices and perspective that shows the differences from one person to another.
Diffusion, Assimilation, Multiculturalism
My name is Emre Yilmaz. I am from Turkey. I study in Canada, Toronto in Nile Academy. In the culture, we have many traditions and I came from a very traditional family, we always celebrate Turkish event with our family. All of my friends are Turkish. I like them all because I do not have trouble with communicating them because we come from the same culture and the same background. My friends and I get along because we are all Muslim and Turkish we do everything together. I respect everyone’s culture and his or her religions. My identity is affected by diffusion, assimilation and multiculturalism. Diffusion is the same event I and other people might celebrate in Canada because we live in Canada. Assimilation affects me because; one might be affected with other belief. Finally, I am affected multiculturalism because it is good we live in multiculturalism country everyone respects everyone
Diffusion occurs when one culture is affected by another culture. Internet affects us a lot because we see stuff that other cultures do so we do it too. Diffusion happens a lot. Ex. In Turkey, you can fine restaurant that sell sushi very often because our culture observes other cultures foods and events. I live in Canada and I celebrate Canada’s celebrations. This is an example of the spread of culture in to my Turkish culture. Assimilation is good but it can be bad like you might be too over other cultures and forget about your culture. EX in my school there is many Turks who don’t know about their cultures celebrations. Assimilation happens in no multiculturalism country but Canada so many Turks so you will not forget who you are. Multiculturalism is so many different countries people living in same society or country.
Diffusion, assimilation and multiculturalism affect me. I will explain why they affect me. Diffusion affected me because when I come to Canada I did not know English so I learned English and I tastes Canadian food in Canadian restaurant instead of going to Turkish restaurant. However, since I come to Nile Academy and everyone is Turkish it does not affect my diffusion because we all share the same background. Assimilation does not affect my identity at all because I do not forger my couture I may do things that belong to other cultures but it does not cause me to forget my own. Multiculturalism affects my identity because I live in Canada with many different backgrounds.
The Three Rites of Passage
The three rites of passage is a ceremony, ritual or event that marks an individual’s passage from on stage to another. I will tell you our traditions in Turkey. Every part of Turkey is very different from one another. The three rites that I will be going through are getting my diploma from school (high school/university and getting married. All three of these rites are looked differently in parts of Turkey. The three rights include the three stages that you would go through. The first stage is segregation it is when separation from the rest of the society & from his/her original status. Transition/Liminal stage occurs when initiate is in a state of transition between the old and the new. Incorporation and reintegration is when the individual is reintegrated into regular society in his/her new role.
The east and the west side of Turkey are very different from one another. If I want to go to post-secondary school and graduate from there on the west side of Turkey it is normal. On the west, side women and men can both go to school but it is not the same on the east side of Turkey. On the western side of Turkey going or graduating from school would be a rite of passage because I would go through the stages. The segregation would be me going to school. The transition would be me waiting to finish my school and get my diploma and incorporation would be me going back in to society with my diploma. On the east side it’s more like men should go to school because women is seen as if they don’t need it, they can stay at home with their mother and learn about cooking. Men do not want women to be educated. When it comes to marriage, it is totally different views between the west and east. In west side you find a good girl or boy and you talk to them go out with them. Some of the families on the west side have the same idea about marriage as the people on the east side. The segregation stage is engaging. The transition stage is getting married and the incorporation stage would be me going back in to society with your ring because you are married. Marriage on the east side is arranged marriage. Your parents will decide for you whom to get married to.
Gender
How is gender constructed? Gender is divided in to two one is female and other is male. In many countries, women do work at home and men bring money home. Media is a bad thing because it shows us what they want us to see. Media makes people see things differently. Men are the strongest in family. Women are the house cleaners. The roles of men and women are created from society and the culture they come from.
An anthropological perspective on gender is that sex, male and female. Gender is defined by culture. The way men and women are expected to act are though at home and culture. When people see the models and commercials on TV and the way they are acting, they want to be like them. Media shows a lot of physical difference between men and women. Men are with abs and women are skinny.
Gender is your genes you cannot change that but gender roles are contracted in society. Media shows difference between male and female example; by the toys the play. Media causes people to think so different about gender roles it gets people thinking Women are weak and men are strong. On media, men are always looking good, stronger and muscular. All of these get people to think like the way they do today.
The things we see always affect our identity in some way so shape of form. An example from me would be whenever I go to Armani I see very muscular models and I feel very bad. I think that without Internet or other technology we would not have these problems that we have today.
Marriage
There are many different types of Marriages then the one we see and know about today. I will be taking about the three types of the marriages in this entry. Monogamy relationship where a person has a significant other. Monogamy is also when the partner always has other men or women in mined going from one to another. Secondly there is a marriage called polygamy this is a form of marriage that involves multiple partners. There are two types of polygamy marriages one being polygyny and the other being polyandry. Polygyny is when the husband has or than one wife. Third, there is polyandry. Polyandry is when the wife has more than one has.
What is culturally expected of me is a monogamous marriage, the monogamous marriage influences myself identity and gives me my own values and beliefs that I want in the future. I have always grown up with monogamous relationships around me. This has caused me in to believing the one person as it is more suitable for psychological and emotional reasons. I really do not think that I will ever involve in one of the other marriages. In my culture, I am expected to follow a relationship with only one significant other. My parents and family say that it does not have to be and arranged marriage. In the future, I am allowed to find a partner for myself as I wish. Since I have grown up in a society like this, I will try to find a person from my own culture and background. The partner I will choose will be from the same religion, same country and with the same traditions. I would say that the same perspectives on situations are very important to get along with that partner. If my partner and I in the future have the same views and perspective with the same religion and both from the same culture than what is expected of me from my culture and family will be perfectly complete. I would also want my partner to be fun, loving, kind and religious as much as I am.
People around the world mostly follow the monogamous relationship because it is how they are born and affected my people around them it is very rare to see the other types of marriages. The similarities and differences of my culture and a monogamous marriage to other types of marriages is that I am expected to marriage one partner and in other types of marriages; they are expected to marriage maybe more than one partner in their culture and traditions.
