There are and have been many cultures upon this earth. There are cultures that might seem weird to us and cultures that look at us in wonderment. They have different lifestyles and whole different outlooks on life. Studying cultures is a work in itself. By studying and comparing other cultures, we can find out more about our culture and ourselves. Cultures contain different folkways. In the Random House Dictionary, folkways is defined as "the ways of living and acting in a human group, built up without conscious design but serving as compelling guides of conduct"(551). For example in our society we could define marriage folkways for LDS, and explain why it happens so early and also how the law of chastity plays a big part upon that. Elizabethan England is a culture full of folkways that might seem different to us, but explain to us a lot about our culture also. While Stalin was in control of Russia, the cultures there are hard for us to understand. It was much different from our culture now, and we can also learn a lot from them. Elizabethans refers to all those that lived in England during the time of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Stalinism defined Stalin's totalitarian cont

Elizabeth I lived from 1533-1603 .She was the daughter of King Henry VIII, and because of no males in the order she became queen in 1558. She reigned for 45 years (Adler 320). This was a time where they were making the change to become more modern, but still had the effects of the old society upon them. Stalin lived from 1879 -1953 (Adler p. 636). He lived in Russia during a time of great depression. The old government was struggling and looking for a new hope to guide them to have a better economy. This struggle to change is shown in a look at their folkways. I think if one compares Elizabethan England and Stalin's Russia's social ways, marriage ways, and religious ways, one can see what this change caused and how they dealt differently and similarly with the changes in society.

David Hackett Fisher described social ways as conventional patterns of migration, settlement, association and affiliation. The social ways of Elizabethan England could be described in one word: Xenophobia. To explain how they acted and reasons they did we need to start with migration. England was like a Renaissance melting pot but England was not proud of it and at most times feared it. The immigration can't compare to immigration in the 1900s, but England probably seemed like the hope during this European Era. People looked to it as there future, bad in contrast the English thought they would take the future away from them.

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Adler, Phillip J. World Civilizations: Volume II. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1996.

Stein, Jess. The Random House Dictionary. New York: Random, 1981.

David Hackett Fisher describes Religious ways as patterns of religious worship, theology, ecclesiology and church architecture. It is true that part of the prejudices in England towards others came from their Protestant revolution. England was different from most countries in Europe at this time. The majority of the English was protestant and belonged to the Church of England. This church clamed to be a mix between Lutheran, Calvinist, and Catholic (Adler 318). King Henry VIII started this church when he wanted to divorce his first wife in order to have a male child that would be able to succeed him in his throne (318).

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