Question 1
Cultural dynamism and its fluid nature present an array of contexts forming the building blocks of human communication and interaction. This interaction results in changes in value orientations with the communicators adopting values from each other. The value orientations involve variations in ones organization of thoughts, emotions, and character, pointing out the fact that one gets born in a culture that is not innate but learned. For instance, a person born in a Christian family will grow knowing the Christian values. Similarly, a person raised in a Muslim culture will grow with the belief that sausages are unclean. In the United States, a capitalist culture and one of individualistic but hardworking people flows in the blood of those born and raised in the country. Cultural beliefs and practices dictate the way people conduct their daily functions including communication and interaction with others. Generally, everyones personal identity reflects the norms and beliefs that one grows in, and these factors happen to be independent of ones control.
Question 2
Dakota War of 1862, also referred to as the Sioux Uprising, refers to the war between the Dakota warriors and the American-English settlers along the Minnesota River. The war resulted from a series of breaches in treaties between the Dakota and the United States by the Indian agents which led to hardship among the Dakota. The tragedy set off with the attack on the white settlers by the Dakota warriors before the US army intervened in support of the settlers. The event would have been prevented if proper intercultural communication took place between the Dakota and the Indian agents, and between the Dakota and the white settlers. Lack of proper intercultural communication between the Dakota and the American-English settlers made the Dakota to feel oppressed while poor communication between them and the Indian agents did little to finding solutions to the often breached treaties by the US government.
Based on the Racial-Ethnic Identity Development model, the Dakota experience can be viewed as the accumulation of historical injustices against the Dakota which began when the settlers displaced the Dakota. Negotiation between the Dakota and the settlers together with the government resulted into treaties that were not honored. New born children found themselves growing in an area where the attitudes of their parents and those of their friends leaned against the settlers. Peaceful coexistence could not exist between the children and the settlers, and this was passed on from one generation to the next until the war occurred.
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