week 8：question 2

[A3095]

How do relations of power and dominance affect adaptation?

[zan72h]

Adaptation is the process by which a population becomes acclimated to its habitat, changing in ways that are beneficial to its survival. Most people and animals will adapt to new surroundings if they must. With cultural adaptation, or the adaptation of one group of people, usually a nondominant or immigrant group, to the environment of a host or dominant group, issues arise that affect the newcomers becoming successfully acculturated into their new surroundings.

The more power the newcomers have in their new setting, the less they feel compelled to accommodate entirely to new cultural norms, so that they can also retain their own heritage. However, if the dominant group holds more power than the newcomers and refuses to accept the new culture, the newcomers experience difficulty in adapting to this new, and hostile, environment.

 

 

Annie

A2866

[zihan wang(Handy)]

As we all know the Darwinian evolution, the main idea is about survival of the fittest. We are human beings. We have a intelligent brain. When our surrounding environment has been changed by some sorts of power and dominance, we have to change ourselves to adapt to a new environment. In the past, the united kingdom was the empire which had a lot of colonies around the world. Due to the colonial domination, the native people had to discard their original language and culture, they were forced to learn english as their first language. As a consequence, we can see a lot of countries set the English as their first official language, because most of these countries' people only can speak English. Obviously, these countries are British colonies in the past. So, once our living environment was changed by some kinds of force, we have to fit into it, or we will be isolated.

[xhuang0802]

You can treat power as a pushing hand and dominance as a driving heart. From my perspective, adaptation is merged by pushing and driving. Firstly of all, people are always pushed to change their behaviors and mind because of the external factors like environment, people around him/her and career. I want to demonstrate that people can not control themselves to change to adapt under this situation or perhaps they are changed by something without any consciousness. Secondly, I think this is the development of the first stage which people begin to get used to adapting this pattern so that their mind in deep will drive him/her to do something to reinforce what the first stage generates. Thus, I think power is the first and the dominance is the second which lead people to adapt themselves in a specific situation

[eason A2954]

Power and dominance affect a lot about how people to adapt. For example, when students grow up and go to college, therefore they leave home. For the first time, they feel that they are really free because no one will control them, no one will limit their time to go outside. However, after enjoying some time freedom, they will desire that there is someone who can ask them to come home early. Sometimes, they will miss what their life original like. That is, they will miss someone control them. In contrast, you used to live in a free life. If one day, your life is changed to be control by government everything, such as an American immigrating to Singapore which is filled with control about anything. That must be very difficult to adapt. Therefore, power and dominance affect a lot how people to adapt. No matter adapting from left side to right side or from right side to left side, it still not easy to inhabit its differences and adapt.

[tiffanyyuan24]

power rely on the domination and management. Changes in the economic and social differences and Interdependence reached an unprecedented level, relying solely on the leadership orders employees to obey the order has not completed the work. In this case, both in senior management or professionals, want to do a good job, you must handle well the relationship up, down, left and right, with the assistance of others.This process requires both itself has the power, but also need to highlight the personal influence.

[vincent ge]

In my word, adaptation is the kind of changes of culture. As a result, Power and dominance are very important not only in nowadays but also in the past. If you have the enough power , you can change the rules of the world. If you do not have the power, you'd better live under the rules. For example, several hundred years ago, king is the most powerful person in the country and he has the power to change everything in the country but the poors could not change it. In conclusion, power and dominance could change the part of culture but they could not stop it.

a2383 vincent

[Julia Tian (A2854)]

Cultural adaptation is a process by which individuals learn the rules and customs of new cultural contexts. Most people will adapt their new environment if they must. The more powerful of the new cultural group the more comfortable they will feel. However, if the dominant group have more power, it will be hard for him to adapt the new culture. For example, a new Asian immigrant teenage who need to go to high school, if there are also some Asian students in the new school, speak same language, share similar culture, then he can adapt the environment more easily. If the new immigrant is the only Asian student, it may hard for him to adapt the new school environment.

 

[7681zhu]

Think about how the privilege-disadvantage dialectic structures some kinds of intercultural transitions. For example, businesspeople who live abroad while working for transnational corporations often are economically privileged: they recevie addtional pay, housing relocation money, and so on. They also host location. In contrast, refugees often lack financial resources in their new host location, which may have been chosen out of sheer necessity. They may have few opportunities to meet other people, travel in their new homeland, or purchase basic necessities.these dialectical differences shape the intercultural migrant's identity and the changes that this identity undergoes.

 

Xiao Zhu (Zoey)

A2760

[a3001gavin]

In my opinion, the power and dominance are complementary and interdependence, if a person or a country have power, he can have dominance more easy. I think that the power can produce the dominance and the dominance can influence the power. For example, in China, the social dormancy is not very consummate, and there are a little people have the power, and they can have the dominance more leisurely. And normal people don’t have any power and are controlled by them. For another example, America is the most developed country of the world, so America can have the many power in the world, and the power can produce some dominance. So, America can cut in anyone country’s problem, and it also can make a war more easy.

Such as the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war. I think this is the relation of the power and dominance.

ID  a3001    Gavin

[anvithg]

Power and Dominance play a very important in forming a identity which certainly include adaptation. In today's world power is one of the factor that helps to dominate and domination might help you to gain power, these factors go hand in hand to convince and win over people. For example when a person moves to the United states  from his home country, he will adapt to the culture of the city he moved to in United States. For example if he moves to New York, there is a high chance of the person listen to rap music because most of the college level kids in New York either listen to Rap or Techno music in New York. If the same person moves to California from India, he might not see a lot of cultural difference because a lot of Indian people live in California. Since its dominated by Indian or Asian people here, its easier for a person to adapt to Californian culture.

[a3000faye]

I think that the power is the root of dominance. The United States has the strongest economic and political strength. It is the only superpower, because it's powerful, there will be a supreme dominance. For example, it can have a huge amount of foreign exchange market becomes very difficult to make all kinds of speculation. And it can make a world currency settlement mainly to reduce foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollars. The United States to become the world's science and technology center, and dominance in the developed countries of the world's largest technology companies in the United States, and these companies that they are the most profitable enterprise. So, the United States’ per prosperity than in other developed countries. And American businesses in the pharmaceutical, aerospace, information technology are important in the world. So, don't have a country can replace the United States.

ID a3000     Faye

[chaonan liu]

Adaptation is the process by which a population becomes acclimated to its habitat, changing in ways that are beneficial to its survival. Most people and animals will adapt to new surroundings if they must. With cultural adaptation, or the adaptation of one group of people, usually a nondominant or immigrant group, to the environment of a host or dominant group, issues arise that affect the newcomers becoming successfully acculturated into their new surroundings. The extent to which newcomers adapt to their new surroundings is highly dependent upon how much power they have in relationship to the host group. The more power the newcomers have in their new setting, the less they feel compelled to accommodate entirely to new cultural norms, so that they can also retain their own heritage. However, if the dominant group holds more power than the newcomers and refuses to accept the new culture, the newcomers experience difficulty in adapting to this new, and hostile, environment.

Chaonan Liu

A2800