Cultural Influences
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In order to understand the role language, symbols and religion play in shaping cultural influences, we must first understand the nature or definition of the words - language, symbol and religion. Language is words, their pronunciation, and even the methods of combining them as utilized and understood by a particular community. Even more directly, language is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of items known as signs, sounds, gestures, or marks, each having its own understood meanings as suggested by objects, actions, or conditions of associated ideas or feelings. A symbol then, is something that represents or suggests something else by reason of its very relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance. It may also be an act, a sound, or object having cultural significance such as the Star of David or Swastika and the capacity to excite or objectify a response as a result of viewing the symbol.Religion is the service and worship of a god or god group. It is also the supernatural commitment or devotion to such a religious faith or observance. Fundamental to almost every culture on Earth is a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices. It is important to understand the inextricable link that culture shares with language. The word 'culture' is now ubiquitous. From politics to business, from lifestyle to the media, everyone talks about culture. Together with business, it is th
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way. Instead of seeing power simply in terms of government or the military, it is everywhere, from the family and gender relations to sport and personal relationships. Our very identities and subjectivities are formed culturally. (Jacques, 2000)
While culture plays a big part on language development, the second most important marker in determining how language is developed is ethnicity. For it is ethnicity that helps to determine not only one's language, but one's religious and symbolic reactions.
One particularly interesting study on this was developed in the Korean-American immigrant and second-generation communities. Close to 75% of the Korean immigrant community professes Protestant church affiliation in America. This particular ethnic group is a great study because there appears to be no known explanational cause as to high incidence of such high church participation by Koreans. Of particular note, are the second generation Americans, who appear to continue the high church commitment. Researchers discovered some interesting reasonings for this.
Christianity in the Korean-American community, more specifically conservative/evangelical Protestantism, plays a powerful role in the construction, support, and reinforcemen
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