Analysis Of American Culture: Trying To Make Sense Of History Lessons, By Joanne Jacobs

When looking at culture we take into consideration the race of a person, where their upbringing was and how their families act in certain situations. Joanne Jacobs, author of “American culture --Trying to make sense of history lessons” believes that culture is ever changing. The past is left behind for a reason, what our fathers and grandfathers did and believed doesn’t automatically pass down to their children. Sadly, this is how it is seen, our culture is set for us and it seems that we are spoon fed it while in our history lessons. In the beginning of the article Joanne tells us about her love for learning and history, she also has a daughter that she observes how she reacts to the lessons taught to her. She believes that in America we have

By this she means who you are is just another additive to make our homelands the best it can be. Heritage and culture go hand in hand, if we want a broad understanding of what culture is then we should venture back in our heritage, what did our family do to get here and how did we change to adapt to what was around us but most importantly who did we change on our way here. As the quote says we are just in a melting pot, we are taking in all the flavors but if we aren’t giving any than it is not being enhanced like it should. Let us use the Hispanic community for example, when a girl is coming of age she has a Quincenera (sweet 15) but this is no different than having a sweet 16. Our way of thinking has been turned against us because of the history lessons being thought in the class rooms. If we don’t start to change our way of thinking and embrace what American culture is coming to then our light is going to fade away. Thus, history will cease to be a priority for student

Carla, from University of Minnesota, has a webpage based on the understanding of the word culture it is entitled Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition. Most of the well-known educators had a common explanation for the word “culture”, they all say that it is not just inherited but acquired as we age. This means as we mix and mingle with people of different backgrounds we take a piece of who they are with us. If, in the United States, we had no intent on unifying and recognizing our differences then we would have no need for culture in our history lessons. Of course, it is a great thing to celebrate our differences and who doesn’t like a