Examples of cultural literacy in the following topics:
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- Health literacy is an individual's ability to read, understand and use healthcare information to make decisions about treatment.
- Reading level, numeracy level, language barriers, cultural appropriateness, format and style, sentence structure, use of illustrations, scope of intervention, and numerous other factors will affect how easily health information is understood and followed.
- The lack of health literacy affects all segments of the population, although it is disproportionate in certain demographic groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, recent immigrants and persons with low general literacy.
- Health literacy skills are not only a problem in the public.
- The eHealth literacy model is also referred to as the Lily model, which incorporates the following literacies, each of which are instrumental to the overall understanding and measurement of eHealth literacy: basic literacy, computer literacy, information literacy, media literacy, science literacy, health literacy.
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- Adult education can take place inside and outside of the workplace, through literacy, GED and continuing education programs.
- Adults with poor reading skills can obtain help from community college and volunteer literacy programs.
- States often have or partner with organizations, which provide field services for volunteer literacy programs.
- These courses are important in assisting immigrants with not only the acquisition of the English language, but the acclimation process to the culture of the United States.
- For more information about literacy and ESOL programs, students and educators should check out the Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) under the U.S.
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- Slave culture in colonial North America was largely a combination of tribal African culture, Christian worship, and resistance.
- In many respects, American slave culture was a culture of survival and defiance against the American slave system.
- African-based oral traditions became the primary means of preserving slave history, mores, and cultural information, and this was consistent with the practices of oral history in African cultures.
- Music, folktales, and storytelling provided an opportunity for the enslaved to educate each other in the absence of literacy, and songs and enthusiastic public worship were often used as a way of channeling and coping with hardships and voicing grievances to others in the slave community.
- Literate slaves taught illiterates how to read and write, despite state laws that forbid slaves from literacy.
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- Archaeology is the study of historical human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture and data they have left behind.
- Without archaeology, we would know little or nothing about the use of material culture by humanity that pre-dates writing.
- However, it is not only prehistoric, pre-literate cultures that can be studied using archaeology but historic, literate cultures as well, through the sub-discipline of historical archaeology.
- In many societies, literacy was restricted to the elite classes, such as the clergy or the bureaucracy of court or temple.
- The literacy even of aristocrats has sometimes been restricted to deeds and contracts.
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- Nativists
campaigned for immigration restrictions from 1890-1920, proposing measures such
as literacy tests and quotas.
- Nativism
meant opposition to immigration and support for efforts to lower the political
or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups they considered contrary to
American society and unable to assimilate.
- Congress passed literacy
test legislation, with proponents such as Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge arguing that it could
benefit overall immigration policy.
- The debate continued, though, and opponents
of a literacy test called for the establishment of an immigration commission to
focus on immigration as a whole.
- Twenty years
after Cleveland’s veto, a literacy requirement was included in the Immigration
Act of 1917.
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- Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (writing) are unfamiliar to most of the population.
- Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.
- Oral cultures avoid complex ‘subordinative' clauses.
- Oral cultures encourage fluency, fulsomeness, volubility.
- Oral cultures take a practical approach to information storage.
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- Nativist movements were formed to combat what was perceived as a threat to existing American culture posed by immigrants.
- It impacted politics in the mid-19th century because of the large inflows of immigrants from cultures that were somewhat different from the existing American culture.
- A favorite plan was the literacy test to exclude workers who could not read or write English.
- Congress passed literacy tests, but presidents vetoed them.
- Responding to these demands, opponents of the literacy test called for the establishment of an immigration commission to focus on immigration as a whole.
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- Between 1890 and 1910, 10 of the 11 former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites through a combination of poll taxes, literacy and comprehension tests, and residency and record-keeping requirements.
- Even in cases in which Jim Crow laws did not expressly forbid black people to participate in, for instance, sports or recreation, the laws shaped a segregated culture.
- While poll taxes and literacy requirements banned many poor or illiterate Americans from voting, these stipulations frequently had loopholes that exempted white Americans from meeting the requirements.
- In Oklahoma, for instance, anyone qualified to vote before 1866, or related to someone qualified to vote before 1866 (a kind of "grandfather clause"), was exempted from the literacy requirement; the only persons who could vote before that year were white male Americans.
- White Americans were effectively excluded from the literacy testing, whereas black Americans were effectively singled out by the law.