The three divergent cultures I chose to write and compare are 1) Individualistic versus collectivist. 2) Masculine versus Feminism. 3) Materialism versus Relationships.
In an Individualistic society people mainly take care of themselves and believe in individual freedom They believe in making their own decisions. They don’t rely on the family to help them. They’re goal orientated and believe each person on their own should look out for themselves and achieve their goals on their own. The United States is an Individualistic country. Everybody believes in the American Dream of each person single handedly achieving their goals by themselves. And they do that by going to college, earning a degree, get a high paying job, buying a nice car, get married, have kids and a dog and buy a house. They achieve these things without the help of anyone. This society also doesn’t believe that the family unit should take care of their parents. They believe they should go live in a nursing home or they arrange for someone to
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This is a society where people believe the family unit is more important than the individual. They believe the communities needs outway that of the individual. China is a collective society and most Asian countries. They believe that community ownership and property should be owned by the community instead on the individual. Water is looked at as a community property. There, they believe in the family unit is the most important thing. And they also believe in keeping the family together. You can easily see three generations living in the same household. They believe in taking care of their grandparents when they get old. They believe in pooling all their resources together in order to attain things the family needs. Take a car for instance or a house. The car would be used by everybody and so would the house. In a collective society, children are taught to get good jobs so they can take care of their parents and
It seeks high values for individualism and respect of adolescents to others. Their culture always looks toward the future and never lets any short interests interfere with what they praise. Their values and ideas are which made this country a secure society and have been held together for thousands of years. China’s stable society is payable to the way they obey to their future commitments established by discipline practices that were taught at childhood.
Every Culture and Country has norms in which they live there day to day life by. What the Nacirema,(Americans) expects out of society, and the structure is seen as peculiar to someone from another part of the world. Thesis statement -Throughout the world Cultural diversity is evident. Cultural Diversity is demonstrated through Marriage, Ceremonies, and the lives of Children.
In America and other countries of similar and contrasting cultures, we like to be right, we like to be on top, and we want to be recognized for both respectively. Competition is an underlying theme in so much of what we do in our daily lives. Whether it’s getting a better grade on a test than your friend, winning a football game or even speeding up faster than the car next to you when the light turns green. Competition, whether we like it or not, surrounds us and we participate in it willingly. We all want to stand on that podium and receive the gold medal, for then we are better than someone else and we can look down upon him or her because we have achieved something they have not. This competition and trying to be better than the person
Individualism was one of the most important events going on in the 19th century. Many Americans looked at themselves as individuals they had a lot of self reliance. They knew they had freedom and they knew that they can take action and just being incontrol. Americans truly believed in themselves. they all wanted to live a free life with their families. People that were living in the US around the early 1800’s were very self assured about themselves, they knew the qualities that they had of being an individual. In the poem “song of myself” the author talks about how the soldiers fought for their families so that they can find the freedom. This was one of the most important
The two societies that are to be discussed are Modern Britain and the Old Order Amish.
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Why do people worry or care too much about others? Why do people have a bad habit of judging or assuming who or who a person is just by their look or the way they act in public spaces? Who would be proud to be part of a society who is constantly discrimination others for their race or labeling them by the way they dress or shape their identities. The following tree authors narrate their personal experiences, how they feel being label as different from the society.
There are many cultural differences between the U.S. and Japan. Each country has their culture and lifestyle. While we may feel that Japanese cultural and lifestyle seems strange, they likewise look at Americans as being different.
If I would visit anywhere in the world, it would probably be the proud and independent island nation of Jamaica. The island-nation of Jamaica is the third largest island of the “Greater Antilles,” a collection of larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, which is a specific section of the North Atlantic Ocean of the Western Hemisphere, specifically off the east coast of the continent of North America. To the north, lie the countries of Cuba, the Bahamas, Crooked Island, Cat Island, Great Inagua, Nassau, Andrea, Key West, and the southern coast of Florida (which is part of the United States of
In our modern society, individualism is celebrated as an achievement of our culture, economy, and success. It basks in the light of personal success overthrowing the success of the community, and believes that to be personally successful is more important than the success and solidarity among the people you identify with. In the 19th century of Latin America, this ideology was forced onto a society that perceived itself as a collective culture. The success of the majority was more important than the success of the individual to the non-Europeans of Latin America. To be successful for the community was success in itself, as you were helping the group. If the community suffered, then you would suffer as well. There was not one person in the community who was at fault for the majority failure, but the whole community was at fault. The European individualistic ideology took the traditional collective perspective and destroyed it with class systems, culture conflict, economic change, and lack of options for the people of Latin America to change the course of their land 's ideologies.
The variations are dominant culture, subcultures and countercultures. These are important parts of material and symbolic culture.
Almost every household in modern China is familiar with the term xiaokang shehui, or "Lesser Prosperity society". It describes a middle-class level of prosperity at which basic needs are comfortably met, with a bit to spare on the side. The phrase is celebrated by leaders at all levels of the party, and, consequently, repeated constantly by the People’s Daily and other government newspapers. Though fashionable, the concept is hardly new. Instead, it dates back to Confucius. [1] Confucius used it in contrast with the concept of Greater Commonalty datong, a blissful society without private property, social
First of all, the US is a nation with a large number of immigrants, which determines that its national culture is identified with individualism. As is known to all, the US is
Malaysia, the multicultural county is rich with various races such as Malays, Indians, Buddhists, Ibans, Kadazans and so forth that could be found from peninsular Malaysia until Sabah and Sarawak. These groups have their own beliefs, cultures, values and norms that would affect an individual’s behaviours, thoughts, feelings as well as actions. Najeemah Muhod Yusof (2001) states that the socio cultural subfields seek to check upon how the both society and culture able to influence human mental states. Accordingly, the multicultural element certainly being emphasized on cultures, ethnics, religious, and socioeconomic that will build reflections on understanding and respecting individual’s differences. As school is being concerned, education is used as a
In comparing and contrasting, the way that cultures in these three texts determines acceptable norms is that they all have a similarity in the norms that are achieved through peer group pressure and tradition. They also establish how members who don't meet the norms or those who are different are treated. In all three cultures, they try to change all those who are different so that they conform. In the short story, My