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INTERCULTURALISM: Hispanics INTERCULTURALISM: Hispanics Project of A‘ Class of High School Team: THE HISPANICS Team’s members: Thanasoulas Panagiotis Kartsonakis Ioannis Kolimatsi Eirini Lappa Maria Class: A‘2 Year: 2013 - 2014 INTERCULTURALISM: Hispanics Contents I. Introduction .................................................................................................... 3 A. Interculturalism ............................................................................................. 3 B. Summary ...................................................................................................... 3 II. Descent of Hispanics .......................................................................................... 4 III. Explaining Questions ........................................................................................ 4 A. Who are the Hispanics? ..................................................................................... 4 1. Mexican .................................................................................................... 4 2. Puerto Rican ............................................................................................... 4 3. Dominican .................................................................................................. 5 4. Ecuadorian ................................................................................................. 5 5. Colombian ................................................................................................. 5 6. Salvadoran ................................................................................................. 5 7. Cubans ...................................................................................................... 5 B. Where do they immigrate? ................................................................................. 5 1. USA ......................................................................................................... 5 2. EUROPE ..................................................................................................... 6 3. CANADA .................................................................................................... 7 4. POLYNESIA ................................................................................................. 7 5. AFRICA ...................................................................................................... 7 C. When did Hispanics start immigrating? ................................................................ 7 D. The Characteristics of Hispanic Immigration ......................................................... 8 E. Why do they immigrate? ................................................................................... 8 G . How did they immigrate? ................................................................................. 11 IV. Hispanic‘s Assimilation to US Society ................................................................... 11 A. Assimilation ................................................................................................. 11 B. Reactions to Hispanics‘ Immigration .................................................................... 11 C. Americans are depending on Immigrants............................................................. 12 D. Economic Impact on the Country ...................................................................... 12 V. COSMOTHEORY ................................................................................................ 12 A. FOOD & MEALTIME CUSTOMS ............................................................................. 12 1. Food History .............................................................................................. 13 Page 1 INTERCULTURALISM: Hispanics 2. Foods of the Latino Americans ........................................................................ 13 3. Food for Religious and Holiday Celebrations ........................................................ 13 4. Mealtime Customs ....................................................................................... 14 B. EDUCATION .................................................................................................. 14 1. Highlighted Characteristics of Hispanic Public School Students .................................. 16 2. School & Economics ..................................................................................... 18 3. Discrimination – a Shared Perception ................................................................. 19 C. Interesting facts ......................................................................................... 20 D. HISPANICS & BUSINESS .................................................................................. 21 1. Hispanics are big business now ........................................................................ 21 2. Hispanics account for most of U.S. future growth .................................................. 22 3. Technology adaption and Adoption ................................................................... 23 4. Shopping Trips and Dollars per Trip ................................................................... 23 E. MUSIC ........................................................................................................ 24 F. Religion ...................................................................................................... 25 1. Hispanic Religious Celebrations ....................................................................... 25 G. TRADITIONS ............................................................................................... 33 1. General Meaning of Tradition .......................................................................... 33 2. Hispanic Traditions ...................................................................................... 34 3. The most popular customs both in Latin America and US ......................................... 34 VI. CULTURE ..................................................................................................... 35 A. Arts ........................................................................................................... 35 B. Literature ................................................................................................... 36 C. Philosophy ................................................................................................ 37 D. Film ........................................................................................................ 37 E. Modern dance ............................................................................................... 37 F. Theatre ...................................................................................................... 38 1. Progression in Postcolonial Latin American Theatre ............................................... 39 VII. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................ 39 VIII. REFERENCES ................................................................................................. 39 A. Bibliography ................................................................................................. 39 B. Sitography ................................................................................................... 40 Page 2 INTERCULTURALISM: Hispanics I. Introduction A. Interculturalism Interculturalism refers to support for cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies within cultures. Interculturalism involves moving beyond mere passive acceptance of a multicultural fact of multiple cultures effectively existing in a society and instead promotes dia- logue and interaction between cultures. Interculturalism has arisen in response to criticisms of ex- isting policies of multiculturalism, such as criticisms that such policies had failed to create inclusion of different cultures within society, but instead have divided society by legitimizing segregated sep- arate communities that have isolated themselves and accentuated their specificity. It is based on the recognition of both differences and similarities between cultures. It has addressed the risk of the creation of absolute relativism within postmodernity and in multiculturalism. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum in her work Cultivating Humanity, describes interculturalism as involving "the recognition of common human needs across cultures and of dissonance and critical dialogue within cultures" and that interculturalists "reject the claim of identity politics that only members of a particular group have the ability to understand the perceptive of that group". Interculturalism has both supporters and opponents amongst people who endorse multicultur- alism. Gerald Delanty views interculturalism as capable of incorporating multiculturalism within it. In contrast Nussbaum views interculturalism as distinct from multiculturalism and notes that several humanities professors have preferred interculturalism over multiculturalism because they view mul- ticulturalism as being "associated with relativism and and identity politics". The United Nations' agency UNESCO adopted the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in 2005 that declares support for interculturality. In Germany all universities are required to have a section on intercultural competence in their social work pro- grams, that involves students being able to be open to listen and communicate with people of dif- ferent cultural backgrounds,
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