Culture Clash: Advantages and Disadvantages

Culture clash: conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values. In the video “Postville: When Cultures Collide”, the small town of Postville, Iowa endures major a major culture shock from first having a moderate amount of people from the Jewish community in New York relocate to the shrinking town, to furthermore have a rise of Hispanic growth. Residents of the town inherently struggled to befriend the Jewish community due to the wide divergence of cultures creating many misconceptions. When the Mexican immigrants took home to Postville, Iowa the locals responded with less welcoming arms and were quite skeptical from only having a lack of knowledge of the new comers. In retrospect, are culture clashes beneficial or do they leave a negative effect? Both.

Culture diversity is very positive. Without having a mix of cultures in communities there wouldn’t be a strong clout to expand and recognize other customs or idiosyncrasies that broaden humanistic values by realizing that alternative approaches are worthy contributions to a community, which results in ...