Benefits to society on understanding the Culture of African Americans
Introduction
Culture is an umbrella that composes the society’s behavior and norms that are found in human societies together with the knowledge, beliefs, laws, customs habits, and capabilities of a given group of people (Rusert,2017). Cultural norms codify conducts that are acceptable in the society as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in some situations that serve as templates to expectations. African Americans have their customs and norms that they follow as their belief, and it is important to respect them. Inhumanity, one sense of culture is served as an attribute of the individual that has a large degree of sophistication in human lives. African American culture has been highly differentiated from other cultures in America. It is perceived to have been inherited from the indigenous Africans in the motherland. Therefore, Culture is a round aspect that has to be recognized and respected in it is symbolic nature.
Cultural particularities of African Americans that are valuable to be maintained
African American family reunion can be used to act as health promotion; it is important to present the occurrences that stand out to people on experiences that occur in the cultural event of roasting of the pig (Thind at el 2015). To African Americans, this animal contributes to the rituals and cultural traditions that are considered to their families, a pig being a highly profiled animal; it is termed as a cultural icon. The meal was mainly served during the funeral of a high profile person in the family as a simple of recognizing his present while he was a life. Therefore, accepting and respecting this culture will have an importance to the African Americana in recognition of their presence. To uphold this culture, it is acceptable to allow the African Americans on the consumption of pig meat and encourage the opening of such business to promote the economy.
A vehicle for family integrity during reunions in the past three or four decades was a crucial aspect to the African Americans. Victories were won through the civil rights movement; therefore, the world became acceptable to African Americans through important economic growth and law advancements that they made over their culture. African Americans, through their traditions of following their own cultural rules, were able to expand the media to have a world view plus national image (Wolfe at el 2015). Through acceptance of their culture of winning and celebrating as big families, they were able to indulge themselves in technology and innovations that have facilitated far-reaching communications, resulting in no longer to be a community of births that surrounded by parents and their extended families. Through their efforts of winning and acceptance in the society, African Americans are able to enter into more advanced ways in the society by education, jobs, and house restrictions were removed to serve them as equal people in the society.
African Americans have reunions that help them solve family conflicts that are contemporary among them without the need to take them to a court of law. This action is supported by the Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action that supports forgiveness and having good terms with the people in the society (Ogbar,2019). Through such implementations, the African American’s presence gets recognized as having a good position in society. Elders had a say in the family gatherings by giving wisdom to the young in the family on how they should handle life and make it a success.
Through the advancement of technology and education among African Americans, they have found it had to retrieve their cultural behaviors. The government has given room for the small cases that can be solved among the elders of the family rather than embedding every law in the courtrooms (Jackson II, at el 2019). This culture will help have peace and reconciliation among the people in a peaceful way since family is an institution that one cannot run away from or avoid, the family is where culture and behaviors are taught. Through the United Nations, minority people have the right to enjoy as a collective or individuals plus to human rights and privileges that make them unique in the society that we are living in.
Family reunions are important rituals that have contributed to the survival of African Americans, the health, and the endurance of African American society. It has helped to maintain cultural heritage in turbulent times (Edwards at el 2015). The family imperative has a big say to the African American as they consider it as the close governance and taught of virtues in the society. This has helped them from the set laws that removed slavery and racial segregation that had emanated through the country. Therefore, recognition of the presence of the African American has enabled to have more of freedoms that will have the society have its glory to the free will of the country.
Acceptance of other people’s cultures will promote the development and integration of open-mindedness in society. Innovations, nontraditional alternatives to solving problems that are affecting society, will be solved easily without affecting the way of living in other communities (Ray,2015). The society will have beneficial factors of giving priority on factors that affect them culturally to an extent they can be solved through the present technology that has taken a wide outreach of the society.
Connections on regard global declarations
The Canadian Archaeological Association supports the culture of diverse minority communities, such as African Americans, through their contributions in society and the economy. The Canadian Archeological has defined the presence of the African American traditions to be far well recognized in order to contain the diversity and presence in the community. There are also agreements on interpretations of black sites and cultural data that are needed for the Afrocentric perspective. For Atlantic Canada, they have adopted the Afrocentric interpretive perspective as a way of recognizing them as a culturally rich community that never neglects their traditions despite the location that they are (Aldana at el 2015). This action has promoted national cohesion and togetherness in the national symbolism.
In conclusion, society is the back born of all social activities that are rendered to them to benefit. Therefore, the organization should be given priorities of understanding on all aspects that involve them. Culture should be taken seriously because it is a way of living and how people have adopted their life; thus, in any actions, they have to affect human beings directly when it is not handled correctly. As the Canadian’s truth puts it, nurses affect human life directly; therefore, it is through their regard to understanding all aspects of culture and how important people regard it in their lives. The African American culture is so wide and diverse; it is of great importance to be recognized and respected at large as any other culture in the world.
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