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Cultural Awareness, Understanding, and Acceptance of culturally diverse students

Hispanic and Caucasian Music : Foreign and Traditional Music Fused Together

D .Introduction

The United States is certainly one of the most diverse countries in the world from a cultural perspective . Capable of speaking 300 languages the Native Americans were the early settlers of the American land Hundred years after that , the Europeans , Africans , Asians and other ethnic race from across the globe arrived and settled in America . These migrations have contributed greatly to the patchwork of modern day American Society . Carrying not only their belonging and property various cultures from

around the world merge with one another through friendships and inter marriages of races . Through these racial interactions , various cultures took different shape and evolve into what we known today . To examine and describe them all would take years to accomplish and tedious since culture co exist with time , it evolve as time goes by . This would then focus on two dominant races and their respective cultures , namely , Hispanic and Caucasian . Since culture is a vast term to explore , this would then focus on the musical culture of Hispanic and Caucasian race . It would focus on how foreign cultures have influenced the growth and development of traditional music

Hispanic and Caucasian culture have influenced each other throughout history . It is often said that both cultures were the patchwork of different cultures put together during the colonial times . Hispanic culture basically speaks or pertains to a larger community that is comprised of different subgroups , such as Mexicans Americans , Cuban Americans and other races that originated from the Latin American continent . Caucasian or American culture is also a patchwork of different cultures originating from various parts of the world . This was brought by immense immigration during 17th up to 21st century and spread , through interactions with various races . This is the basic theme that these two cultures share together and its music , architecture and literature are deeply influenced by foreign culture . The land of America became a melting pot for these two cultures , a place for previous identities to be melted down together with other cultures to create an integrated , uniform society . Their culture was not forgotten it was just shaped through the influence of foreign culture

E : Hispanic Culture

Since the 17th century , Hispanic people have been living in the United States . Some of them were forced to come as slaves and those who could afford the expenses of immigration settled in the United States driven by the opportunity presented by the new found land . Though years have passed since the colonial times , most of them still cannot forget the trademarks of their former masters . Aside from their native language most of them could speak the Spanish language and to some extent has been incorporated in their native language as well . Another characteristic of Hispanic culture that was influenced by the Spanish regime is the mestizo lifestyle (Gallarga , 2007

The term Mestizo describe Latin American whose lifestyle combine ideas values , practices and other cultural elements both European and indigenous...

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