People often judge a culture on the stereotypical outlook that one has been taught, to believe is the way that culture is. Many people today are so prejudiced, that they don’t even care to know or understand the true meaning behind another culture! First assumption one might have of American Culture, for example, is that they are the land of the free, do as they please. People in America thing of Native Americans as they people who they took the land from! These things have been embedded into our heads as youth! In this paper, you will be informed of American Culture and the inside scoop of Native American rituals and beliefs. Not everything is always what it appears to be, people of different cultures have their own beliefs, and each culture is difficult to understand from an emic point of view.
America is typically described as the land of the free, which is true to an extent. There always has to be rules to govern the people residing within the region or there would be complete chaos! The American Government is put forth some strict rules recently. The Government is ordered that each person has to have health insurance. The American Government is trying to take the firearms away from everyone. They are trying to turn american into a dictatorship. Yes, we as Americans are able to work where we want to, for the most part go where we want to, and live like we want to! We have the ability to use individualism, which is a way of life by which a person places his or her own desires, need and comforts above a broader community (Glenn McMahan, American Culture). MaMahan also states that “ there are three factors that defines American culture which as work, individualism, and religion. The widespread religion of American culture is Christianity. Although, with the government changing a few laws, it is looking less and less like a christian founded country.
The Native Americans is a culture with strong spiritual beliefs and rituals that is refered to a dual...