Conflict

Raoul C. Chung
Professor Bowen
English 403WI
06 July 2003
Never-Ending Conflict

Culture -- The socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. It certainly took many years to develop such thing as culture, behind every little part or celebration there’s often a meaningful story. Take Chinese culture for example: July 14th of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Halloween that the spirits of our ancestors will visit their children, and the present generation will welcome them by burning paper sculptures resembling houses and maids in an open fire as gifts. Without knowing what is going on, foreigners would be clueless and make assumption about our culture, this is the problem when two or more cultures clash together. United States is the best example of a melting pot; many different cultures are closely associating with each other in a contact zone (a virtual space where two or more cultures overlap on...