Question

Remember to write a full 2 pages, double spaced. Use course/text vocabulary to discuss the following: Page 1: How has culture (think more than just ethnicity, race, nationality - although you can include those) impacted your identity? examples: Seattle/Pacific Northwest culture, workplace cultures, groups you belong to (Sea hawks fan) Page 2. How has your cultural perceptions impacted a relationship (pick one relationship of your choice to focus on)?

Answer 1

ANS : PART 1

Cultural identities are influenced by several different factors such as ones religion, ancestry, skin colour, language, class, education, profession, skill, family and political attitudes. These factors contribute to the development of one's identity.Culture influences personal identity because this gives you the label for the group that you belong in. Within culture you will find language, customs, mores, group beliefs, and how to interact with people who are like yourself.Humans are social animals and culture is the glue that holds groups of humans together. However, culture has context and we tend to think that just because someone speaks the way that we do, that they believe the same things that we do.The biggest challenge that humans have is not going into space or understanding the laws of physics, it is understanding how to get along with each other and live in peace.

Language, for example, is a major aspect of our identity and language, both what and how we speak, is determined from birth by environment and social culture. It is further influenced by education.The brain is plastic and flat. By that I mean it is so heavily influenced by external messages that any at-birth biological factors are mostly immaterial and have little sway over our sense of identity. Culture is one of the most powerful factors on who we are and who will may become.If you are born in Shanghai to middle class Buddhist Chinese parents, that is who you will become, albeit with adaptations based on your unique experience of life.If you are born in Louisiana to white working class Christian American parents, that is who you will become, albeit with adaptations based on your unique experience of life.This is why each of the 75. billion people alive today is unique but the same.

ANS : PART 2

Culture plays an integral part in an individual’s life. Various aspects of life are governed and influenced by the culture including the social behavior, norms, and the influence over the judgment and decisions. I particularly believe that culture is a prominent aspect of life and subsequently has to do with the kind of person we become in our life.The culture has a strong influence over our thinking, ideologies and understanding. As thinking is one of those aspects that keeps vacillating and growing with in us, shaping our life every time we learn something new. And the culture is one of those attribute which helps in augmentation of our cogitation. Some of the culture which observe open-mindedness are often more likely to grow and develop faster than the others who observe conservativeness.

culture is also an important body controlling the manifestation of our social behavior, etiquettes, attitude and the potential of an individual to strive or work for something. Learned behavior is the foundation of human cultures and the transmission of this behavior ultimately powers the wheel of development of human culture. Human behavior produces cumulative changes in the society, and the constantly changing society requires constant behavior adjustments. it is obvious by now that the way of life a person would live in future is derived chiefly from the cultural values and aspects of the specific group he belongs to. The three specific reasons I used for justification of my thesis are as follow, firstly the culture has strong influence on our ideologies and thinking, in a broader sense we as a person are an outcome of our thinking and ideologies. Secondly, culture demonstrates our way of responding to various conflicts and harmony prevailing in the society, dealing with conflicts is an important dimension of life and eventually and indirectly our response generated towards it is determined by the culture we are influenced by or born into. And lastly culture is the primarily body, that demonstrates our disposition, attitude and the potential and ability to strive or work for something. Just like economy and country, culture is also one of the most important dimension of our life. Cultures are not just about traditions, food customs, languages, dress etc. but perhaps, it has a broader horizon than the literary context, which requires a great deal of understanding and contemplation as a whole.