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     Define ethnocentrism and discuss the problems resulting from it for a person entering a new culture.

     Ethnocentrism is an attitude or a way of thinking about that our culture it is the best than the others, sometimes can be produced intolerance to other people by the color of the skin, language, customs, religion or race. This situation can appear in many persons when moved out to their countries, begin a new life or start studies in a different place; will be present in the second stage of the culture shock.    

      We need to understand that the people are different, every body as a unique person and then we can begin to observe what the people do without judging.     

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 Connerton, P., & Reid, F. (1993). Linkages: A Content-based Integrated Skills Text.Boston: Heinle& Heinle Pubishers.

Boston, Massachusetts: The Birth of a New Nation

1.  Discuss the major events that led up to the American Revolution.  Include dates in your discussion.

    

        The majors events that led up to the American Revolution were 5: The Stamp Act, the protest “No taxation without Representation”, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Independent Declaration.

        The Stamp Act was a law approved by Parliament of Great Britain. Consist in a royal stamp for the newspapers, magazines and legal papers but colonialist considered a tax.

   The colonialist considered that the Stamp Act is a law without them opinion because they don’t have any representative in the Parliament. For this reason they protest against this law by sent letters to the Parliament said “No taxation without representation”.

        In 1767 the Parliament decided approved another law to establish taxes for an important products form the mother country. For this reason they colonialist organized a group who calls “Sons of the Liberty” and promote a boycott and many protests in the 13 colonies.

        The British Government sends 4,000 soldiers to content the protest around Boston. On March 5 of 1770 the British soldiers kill 5 colonialists and arrest 6 others, so this event called “the Boston Massacre”.

        In 1772 continuing protests around the 13 colonies by the time the British Parliament decided repeal of the import taxes except one, the tax on British Tea to demonstrated their power. Therefore, on December 16 the Sons of Liberty decide boarded 3 British ships and threw the tea into the water and called “the Boston Tea Party”. In order to this the British Government decided closed the Boston Port and militarized the Town.

        The relationships between the colonialist and the British Government not improve, so they fought in 1775. The British Government decided closed all the ports and the colonialist had no choice to declared independent from the mother country on July 4 of 1776, but finally the colonialist won in 1783. This war called the American Revolution and born a new nation The United States of America.             

   Connerton, P., & Reid, F. (1993). Linkages: A content-based integrated skills text. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.