Golden Door Video perception, Environment, and Culture
Course
Institution
Golden Door Video perception, Environment, and Culture
Perception, environment, and culture are related in different ways. Immigrants in Ellis Island believed that the highland would be the best place for settlement, growth, and development. The environment played a huge role in ensuring there is growth. The Island environment demanded that the students have to know English as the second language, or else one would not communicate with different groups of people on the Island (Foner, 2008). The students have enthusiasm in learning the new language and comment that language opens the golden door. The environment makes up the culture the two interdepend and can destroy each other too. The environment turned against the immigrants engulfed with poor culture from other parts of America, leading to a retrenchment from the Island. Perception of one’s mind mostly coincides with the happenings in a given place; one architect predicted that Ellis Island’s structures would go down before reaching ten years, and that happens the structures went down after five years.
Culture in a certain place is aligned to the environment, also part and parcel of the environment. Perceptions influence a given place’s culture, like the perception that Ellis highland is a golden door that brought rejection of lazy and untrustworthy people on Ellis highland to the extent of jailing the victims. The environment turned against the victim and now viewed the once paradise to be a place of nightmare. The environment allowed trade to occur in Ellis Island, and different social activities took place; weddings were witnessed, the older people interacted and showed love to the kids (Foner, 2008). The environment made the ceremonies and social gatherings become the culture of that place. There are different types of people making the classes; businessmen, leaders, mayors, and the poor make the society complete. In an environment, the population always increases and led to the spread of culture, and in America, over two hundred million citizens are related to immigrants.
Reference
Foner, N. (2008). From Ellis Island to JFK: New Yorks two great waves of immigration. Yale University Press.