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CULTURAL INFLUENCES.
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Discusses the role of language, symbols and religion. Defines the words and terms. Personal or institutionalized system of religion found in almost every culture. Link of culture and language. Language development of children. Role of ethnicity in language development. Their symbolic thinking and learning process. Cultural value reinforcement. Symbolism of sub-cultures.
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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 ob
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(Nowak-Fabrykowski, 2 ) There exists a point at which a child cannot connect language andsymbol as thought. Fall 1998. "Language in an Image". Today the Quran (Koran) is the most widely read book in its original language in human history. As an institutional vehicle for the cultural reproduction and socialization of the second-generation, this is accomplished in the ethnic church by ideologically legitimizing and defending a set of core traditional Korean values and forms of social relationships which...constitute the main components of the second-generation ethnicity. Kiswahili in Africa is today the most important indigenous language to have emerged out of Africa-but its origins lie in the interaction between Islam and African culture. Contemporary Review Co., Ltd. You have to treat culture as formative of human life, human agency and of historical process...culture is now central to how society works and the distribution of power. This particular ethnic group is a great study because thereappears to be no known explanational cause as to high incidence of suchhigh church participation by Koreans. But it was not always so. The spread of Islam has had an impact on the globalization of culture. Criticism.Wayne State University Press. To become politically correct then is to deny the cultural,religious, linguistic euphemisms or symbolism of sub-cultures rather thanthe enhancement and edification of multi-culturalism. "Cultural Revolutions". Islam and the Arabic language have bequeathed the Arabic alphabet for languages like Farsi, Urdu, Old Hausa and others. The Arabs have given the world the so-called Arabic numerals through which the twentieth century has computerized the human experience. 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. Fundamental to almost every culture on Earth is a personal setor institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices. Shuja, Sharif. This leads us to ponder an interesting point: if one were to create asymbolic image and within the border of that image were to appear a letter,a word, a phrase or a sentence, is it language or does it become a symbolwithin the image? Mansell, Darrel. Nowak-Fabykowski, Krystyna. March 2 . Therefore, itmight be said that religion and language give birth to the culture. It may also be an act, a sound, orobject having cultural significance such as the Star of David or Swastikaand the capacity to excite or objectify a response as a result of viewingthe symbol. Journal ofInstructional Psychology. Culture has transformed our conception of power, which we used to think of in a rather crude and reductionist way. (Jacques, 2 ) While culture plays a big part on language development, the secondmost important marker in determining how language is developed isethnicity. May 2 1. It is alsothe supernatural commitment or devotion to such a religious faith orobservance. "What it means to be Christian: The roleof religion in the construction of ethnic identity and boundary amongsecond-generation Korean Americans". In fact, aswe begin the 21st Century, one in five human beings claim the distinctionof being Muslim. "The Role of Poetry andStories of Young Children in their Process of Learning". Until the late 197 's, culture was a term used for the most part to describe the artistic tastes of the elite. These kinds of mental life have an order of priority as the image and its thought are prior to the word and its thought. Of particular note, are the secondgeneration Americans, who appear to continue the high church commitment.Researchers discovered some interesting reasonings for this. Jacques, Martin. Sociology of Religion. Spring 1999. (Mansell, 1999) Religion and language define a culture and its symbols. This can be seen most frequently in the beginninglanguage phase of talking when a child learns a word and labels everythingwith that word as in 'dada' and calls the cat as well as father 'dada'.Observable, is a point at which the child discerns a difference between thecat and the father and from then on, refers only to the father as 'dada'and begins seeking out the word for the cat. The Bible is the most widely read book in translation. The word 'culture' is now ubiquitous. The way a child perceives ofthe meaning of symbols and word meaning is passed on culturally. For it is ethnicity that helps to determine not only one'slanguage, but one's religious and symbolic reactions. New Statesman. (Chong, 1998) In this particular case, the study found the choice of religion to becultural value reinforcement. R E F E R E N C E S Chong, Kelly H. Our very identities and subjectivities are formed culturally. Thisadvancement augments the development of their symbolic thinking and theirlearning process. NewStatesman, Ltd. The social character of language as an historical phenomenon reasons that to learn a language a person must form the concepts expressed by it or in it. A symbol then, is something that representsor suggests something else by reason of its very relationship, association,convention, or accidental resemblance. Close to 75% of theKorean immigrant community professes Protestant church affiliation inAmerica. This seems to prove true of another religionthat carries a strong adherence to its cultural roots - Islam. From politics to business, from lifestyle to the media, everyone talks about culture. One particularly interesting study on this was developed in the Korean-American immigrant and second-generation communities. At that rate, by the mid to late 21st Century, 25% of theworld's population will most likely be Muslim. Contemporary Review. Muslims are expected to read the Quran in the original Arabic and not a translation that may change the intended meaning. Together with business, it is the new language of our times. Even more directly,language is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by theuse of items known as signs, sounds, gestures, or marks, each having itsown understood meanings as suggested by objects, actions, or conditions ofassociated ideas or feelings. (Shuja, 2 1) The studies reviewed concerning these two particular cultures wouldindicate that religion is inextricably intertwined in the language and theculture evolves from the joining of the two, in effect reinforcing thereligion's beliefs, values and finds reiteration in that the Holy Book ofIslam may only be read in the original language. It is important to understand the inextricable link that cultureshares with language. Religion is the service and worship of a god or god group. These concepts are historically determined and arise not within individual experience, with its limited environment, but have arisen out of the cumulative experiences of many individuals, within a presumably wider environment. You can no longer think primarily in terms of the economic and the material and then add the cultural icing afterwards. Contemporary societal culture hasadvanced to a point that children develop in a more advanced way withspecial abilities to ask questions, to doubt, and to wonder. Language and the image are irreconcilable because they come from and eventuate in kinds of thought or mental life which are themselves irreconcilable. "ISLAM AND THE WEST: From Discord toUnderstanding". 1997. George Uhlig Publisher. (Jacques, 1997) It is the study of children and their language development andconnection that clarifies this point. Language iswords, their pronunciation, and even the methods of combining them asutilized and understood by a particular community. As thechild is to the mother, so is the link between language, religion, symbolsand culture. In order to understand the role language, symbols and religion play inshaping cultural influences, we must first understand the nature ordefinition of the words - language, symbol and religion. Language is the severely ruled, repressive mental life of abstract ideal types which exclude absolutely everything not strictly belonging to them; the image, a mental life still free of such types and organized - or disorganized-as dense, continuous matter itself is organized in its infinitude of aspects or characteristics. Christianity in the Korean-American community, more specifically conservative/evangelical Protestantism, plays a powerful role in the construction, support, and reinforcement of Korean ethnic identity/boundary in second-generation members. Islam has spread not only as a religion but has also helped to give birth to languages which are spoken by many more non-Muslims than Muslims.
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