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Essay on Muslim American Culture
According to Edward Hall
- Culture is a models, templates.
- Culture is the medium we live in, like the air we breathe.
- Culture is innate but learned (i.e. we are born with the physical necessity and capacity to specialize our bodies, brains, hearts in line with cultural patterns.)
- Culture is living, interlocking system(s)--touch one part, the rest moves.
- Culture is shared, it is created and maintained through relationship.
- Culture is used to differentiate one group from another. (In other words, division into groups comes first; deliberate differentiation via cultural symbols comes second.)
Furthermore, Hofstede (1994) viewed culture as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or categories of people from another.” In general, culture is a shared way in which groups of people understand and interpret the world. (Hofstede, G, 1994)Amateur This particular issue of Ethnologies discovers the interrelated theme of language as well as culture, and mainly how language and culture contribute to self-definition in local, regional, national and international contexts. If we look to Islamic history, it demonstrates us pre-Islamic positive values for instance courage, kindness, and directness efficiently integrated with Islamic values and works. The conventional view of culture presents patterns of acceptable performance and beliefs. It is revealed in values, norms, and practices. Culture is insubstantial and deceptive and it can be observed at multiple levels.
An enthralling disjunction between linguistic and cultural recognition has developed among Muslims in America. As Bond shows in his assessment of language use in the Belfast mosque, Muslim immigrants have discarded both their vernaculars as well as Arabic so as to avoid negative typecasting by English-speaking Protestants and Catholics. This movement is unique among Muslim immigrants to America. The Islamic Cultural Centre and its mosque have turned out to be the symbol of the American unity......
