100% American Culture?

This blog is question weather there is a 100% American culture, or if there is no such thing. I have read both documents that show examples of the cultures. My inference about "The 100% American" written by: Ralph Linton. The whole first paragraph talks about his morning activity, almost everything that he had used was used first in a different culture or made in a different country. Example: "He puts on his slippers (adapted from moccasins invented by Indians in the Eastern woodlands.)" American includes Middle America, South America along with North America.
After he gets ready to start the day he again uses many other cultures to get dressed, wash his face, and even look out the window. None of which the cotton, soap, or window originated in the United States. He smokes tobacco and that was originated in Brazil. Many Americans smoke, so how can we even be close to having 100% American culture? We can have a 100% American culture because we have developed everyone else's inventions, and findings into our own. We now make our own clothes out of our own cotton, and we now make our own slippers/shoes, BUT there will NEVER be a 100% American culture because we still have tons of importing and exporting going on. We constantly trade goods with other country's and we will always keep borrowing and trading new ideas with other countries. I think its good that we aren't 100% American because we can use it as a tool to interact with other countries, and it will give a chance for others to see how our practices and believes are tied in with theirs. I think many cultures are mixed in America, especially in the United States.

Shipwrecked

Our class recently took part in "Abandon Ship" we all had to keep only nine people on our boats. There were over 20 people in the life boat before we made room. In our American culture the decisions vary depending on who you are. Some people would save a celebrities to possible gain money, fame, and fortune. Some people would save others because they have kids are families back home. It all depends on how the person was raised ethically. I think that parents usually set the guideline to it. It may be different in other cultures. America has many selfish people in the nation I think and other country's might not have that though process.

Sociological Imagination

Times were much different than they were when I was growing up and forming a childhood. When I was just a kid cell phones and computers weren't very popular and even as I got a little older the technology still as advanced as it was today. We had dial-up internet and car phones. Being a kid born in 2013 would be very different but almost ironically similar because we have some amazing technology, but during their childhood technology will be even more advanced.

If I grew up somewhere else I could be a whole new kid. My town, school, and community is what I grew up with and formed me. If I lived in a largely populated place I could have new hobbies and do different things. I think some problems can be big as a teenager but teenagers make smaller problems seem bigger than what they are. I fret over trying to get everything done in one day but I have all kinds of time to get everything done. During school I fret about getting everything done on time. I think fretting and worrying about things is better than not worrying about anything. Worrying about things helps me get them done.

Freaks and Geeks

Recently we watched the show Freaks and Geeks. In this show there are many different groups of kids and they all show qualities of all the different theories.

The types of groups include: Bullies, geeks, freaks, and athletes. The purpose and function they serve are to have the same type of kids that become friends because they like the same things. There are negative influences for the geeks because the bullies aren't nice to them. This is functional theory and Emile Durkheim discovered it.

The geeks were constantly getting picked on by their bully. Their bully had power over them everyday. The bully had power over them because he was much larger and stronger than the geeks. The bully used his power to intimidate and scare the geeks so that they did not want to come to school. This is the conflict theory it was discovered by Karl Marx.

There is a very important symbol in the episode it shows a "special" kid that always gets picked on but he didn't understand that kids were picking on him. Lindsay approaches them and defends him to stop people from picking on him. This shows symbolic interactionism. Max Weber discovered symbolic interactionism.

WhoamI

Hello my name is Plant I love family, friends, and sports! I am very fun once you get to know my humor. Many people think I am annoying, and that's okay. I also like hunting and fishing. The biggest influence on my life is my family. I wouldn't be anywhere without my family. My goal in life is to graduate high school, then go to college and be a good student there. Then I will get married and be a great husband. My purpose in life is to make people smile and laugh.