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 One of the most overlooked aspects of cultural diversity is one’s own culture. So many of us were born in the United States and we hardly see ourselves as anything more than American. Yet your culture and your history are such an important part of your history that it deserves a little attention. Your parents or grandparents or even relatives far beyond them once made a harrowing passage to find the land you now call home. Where they came from is part of your own culture and bears witness to the fact that we are all immigrants and we are all part of one huge melting pot. When you embrace your own culture you are more aware of the diversity that surrounds you and become more in tune with the plight of those still struggling for recognition in this country.

 

Your culture has helped to create part of who you are whether or not you realize it. Your previous cultures were more than likely melted into one at some point, and the idea of original culture was long lost on your family. Some families have such diverse cultures that it is almost impossible to reconcile. I have known people who married and had children and one day had to explain that one grandparent was part of the Nazi party while the other grandparent was a Jew who fled to America. This makes for seriously diverse personal culture that can only eventually enrich our understanding of the world around us. Despite the difficulties within each culture, there is much to be learned and gained when you examine your own culture.

The goth culture is scary to many of us simply because we don’t understand it. In most cases, the goth culture is a mere obsession with all things dark, brutal, and beautiful in a way that most teenagers see angst and beauty as a pleasant mixture. In rare cases the goth culture takes on the role of vampire like stalking, trying to actually become the vampires and the walking dead that they read incessantly about. In most cases, these phases are short lived and actually result in nothing more than a little bit of embarrassment for their actions and thoughts. There is very little violence among the goth culture.

The fact that parents tend to freak out about the goth culture makes it all that much more appealing. After all, what teenager or young adult doesn’t thrill at the sight of their parents squirming with discomfort? Most goth girls are no more likely to give it up than any other girl in their class, and most goth guys aren’t as interested in violence and death as they pretend to be. The goth culture is more of a myriad of self searching angst much the way the punk culture was for kids of the 70s and 80s. The greatest difference between the punk culture and the goth culture is that there is a greater level of acceptance in the goth culture, and those who wish to join are usually welcomed without thought to reason or rhyme.

Where emerging etiquette England and France is commonly referred to as: “the classic country of etiquette.” However, the birthplace of etiquette did not name them.
Coarseness of manners, ignorance, the worship of brute force, etc. in the XV century rule in both countries. In Germany and other countries, then Europe can not speak, only Italy, one of those times is an exception. Improvement of manners of Italian society begins in the XIV century. The man was transferred from the feudal mores to the spirit of the new era and the transition began in Italy earlier than in other countries. Comparing Italy XV century, with the other peoples of Europe, immediately striking a higher degree of education, wealth, ability to decorate their lives.

But at the same time, England, ending a war is involved in another, staying until the middle of XVI century, a country of barbarians. The notion of etiquette established norms of morality are the result of a long time process of establishing relationships between people. Without compliance with these standards can not be political, economic, cultural relations, because you can not have no respect for each other, without imposing a certain limit.
Etiquette – a word of French origin, meaning behavior. This includes the rules of courtesy and politeness, accepted in society. Modern etiquette customs inherited almost all the peoples of the hoary antiquity to the present day. The bases of its rules of conduct for these are universal because they are respected by not only some of the society, but also representatives of a variety of socio-political systems that exist in the modern world. The people of each country make their decorum amendments and additions resulting from the country’s social system, the specifics of its historic buildings, national traditions and customs.