This paper analyses three important popular cultural manifestations in the struggle for Mexican-American identity: clothes, cars and music. The paper argues that from the 1940s all three have provided canvasses for the expression of Chicano cultural assertion and resistance, while provoking a range of negative reactions from the dominant Anglo-U.S. political culture. Although the Zoot Suited Pa...

The authors examined the effects of exposure to foreign cultural environments and symbols on decision making among European Americans. Although European Americans predicted change less frequently than East Asians did (Pilot Study A), European Americans anticipated greater change when primed with East Asian culturally-laden locations (Pilot Study B and Study 1) and the East Asian yin-yang symbol...

INTRODUCTION: Although the Institute of Medicine has declared equity to be one of the six key domains of health care quality1, racial disparities continue to be a well-documented problem afflicting contemporary American healthcare.2 Since breasts represent a symbol of femininity for many women, breast reconstruction is critical to mitigating the psychosocial and cultural stigma of a catastrophi...

The role of the mask has always been related to socio-cultural life a society. Mask art is type folk art. All people can dance as form preserve and maintain artistic heritage their ancestors. basis this research reveal meaning Cirebon symbol. In research, method used descriptive qualitative an effort describe analyze phenomenon. From it be concluded that Dance, which symbol manifestation (repre...

this study reviews the formations of the family in shahnameh; distribution of power in it; and its identity. therefore, we study the theoretical background related to the subject of the research, theories related to the topic of cultural theories of malinowski, radcliffe brown, ario and shlensky, ronard and proposed research and theoretical framework of the research were written according to th...