Cultural Values In Life

No one can control what family they are born into nor what struggles are destined for them in the future. By the age of nine, my parents could no longer help me with my homework, rather they could only offer a few words of encouragement. The language barrier and cultural clash we experienced as a family put me at a disadvantage compared to other children my age.

Mexico is a country located in North America. It borders the North Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Mexico has two mountain ranges that are extensions of the Rocky Mountains from northern North America. Mexico has a federal republic and a free market economy where the prices of good and services are determined in a free price system. They are quite easy to do business with in the world, being 47th out of 188 countries. Mexico has a population of over 129 million people and the growth rate in 2017 is 1.27%, which is actually 50% lower than it was in 1980. With so many people being born each year, more and more areas are becoming populated, and there is no room to really grow. This was a factor of why my friend Emilio Yepez moved from Mexico. Him and his family knew that there could be a better life in the United States rather than staying and living in Mexico due to the socio-economic gap that is very wide, and the fact that rural areas are often neglected in Mexico. There is also thousands of people who die due to gang related violence. There are powerful cartels that control the drug trafficking in South America to the US. Mexico has rampant gang violence, corruption within the government and it is also a weak state with little authority. The Hofstede’s Cultural Values are very interesting to compare to the United States. The power distance in Mexico is two times better than the United States’s; however, the United States is three times greater in the

I have always viewed my childhood as well balanced and the all-American white picket fence type. My parents were happily married with two kids and a dog. Until I began reading this book, it never occurred to me that some of the choices I have made in my life may be a result of a poorly differentiated family. I can see a reflection of myself in the words of Kerr & Bowen (1988) when they describe the development of a child from a poorly differentiated family as:

The “Heritage Assessment Tool” is a guide to help determine cultural, ethnic, and religious heritage. It may be used to assess your own cultural values or the cultural values of other ethno cultural backgrounds. Using this tool will guide the user into making non-stereotyped assumptions about the heritage of a patient. The Heritage Assessment Tool allows the interviewer to gather a deeper understanding of the traditions that make up the health background of certain individuals or groups. Three families including the authors own, will be evaluated for differences in health traditions. Health maintenance, protection and restoration will be addressed as well as, identifying common health traditions based on the authors own cultural

Aldous Huxley shows the cultures values by depicting John as an outcast, in Brave New World. With his mother, the reservation and the World State John continually finds himself being rejected from the societies in finds himself apart of.

As we become immersed in our own culture, it can be challenging to grasp the difference in cultural pattern taxonomies orientations of other cultures. Cultural pattern taxonomies has been defined in the textbook, Communication between Cultures, “as the dominant beliefs and values of a culture.” Cultural value orientation varies among cultures and ultimately affects the way we communicate interpersonally.

Religion, social economic-status and culture was what affected my values and norms that I used while I was growing up. I come from a catholic family and my parents made me go do by 1st communion and confirmation. There they thought me to always follow god and to always treat with respect people who are older than me. My culture also always thought me to always respect my parents and obey with anything they say. My culture has always thought me to never forget where I came from and to also never forget the people that help me get to where I am.

The cultural assessment done for this case study was Guatemala. The homes are made with simplicity with the resources of the community. San Andreas is a community that holds 40,000 and consist of most individuals deriving from Mayan descent (66). San Andreas is a place where roosters wake people up instead of alarm clocks, so this community lives without most luxuries such as that one. There are no fancy kitchens with tiled floors. There is only wood to make the fire and some type of pot or pan to help cook the food. This case study will be describing the challenges of this community from using this type of method to cook.

Ecstacy.MDA. Nutmeg. A ubiquitous spice that can be found in kitchens worldwide, nutmeg has been harnessed in cooking, rituals, and a multitude of different ways across multiple cultures for millennia (Baxamusa, 2011). Its most common use in near day-to-day cooking is something that is not given a lot of thought to, but with Drug culture becoming increasingly prevalent in younger demographics, nutmeg has become a cheap and easily sourced alternative (Shafer, 2010). Through analysis of its chemical components, its structures and properties, in comparison to other illicit drugs such as MDMA (Ecstasy) and MDA (3, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine), credence can be given to the relationship between its popularity rise in youth culture, and its

Texts reflect the culture and values of their eras by presenting and addressing perspectives of the composers on the issues of the context. The poem The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska and the Austrian film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance by Michael Haneke accomplish this by exemplifying issues in 1990s society such as the increasing influence of media and the breakdown of interpersonal communication.

I would define culture as a particular social group’s shared ideas, beliefs, and customs. Culture is important due to the amount of influence it has on people and how they operate their lives. It affects many different aspects, such as their hopes and fears, their personal views and values, and how they conduct themselves in various relationships.

There are different ways through which artists represent gender in their works. Whereas there are artists that represent diverse gender as people of dignity, others represent them with a lot of stereotypes. For instance, most male artists have represented women as money hungry individuals with lavish lifestyle. Consequently, the male rappers have in most cases objectified women and used them to portray their fantasy lifestyle. It is because of this kind of representation that this paper analyses 50 Cents’ Candy Shop. In this essay I will specifically discuss the societal and cultural values 50 cent portrays through his music and music videos. The essay will also explore the message that 50 Cent delivers to his audience and how it influences their behaviors and values.

The first chapter discussion forum caused me to consider my position in society. So far, I have received a privileged upper-middle class upbringing. So, I payed extra attention to those who had similar upbringings as myself. I found an interesting theme. In her post, Kayleigh Denney said, “However, they (her parents) did a good job of making sure that we knew that there were people out there who are a lot less fortunate than we are” (Dunney,, July 3, Kayleigh Denney). Another classmate, John Ciavaglia made a similar statement. He said, “My parents were

Cultural values, personal ethics, and morality are all topics that usually have a different meaning for every individual. My personal ethics, morality, and cultural values have developed throughout the many life lessons that I have learned in my 29 years of life. I can still remember a specific Saturday afternoon at my grandparents' house. I was sitting on my grandpa's lap watching the Dodger game. In between innings my grandfather asked me the question, "Aaron it is time you learn about values and ethics. I want you to grow up to be an upstanding citizen and not a society reject." While at that moment I was a little unsure of what my grandfather was talking about, over the next few years it was moments like those that I began to

The analysis on the construction and dissemination of cultural values, ideologies, and hierarchies is as varied as the historian. Again semantics and semiotics, important issues to understand the full web of the “word-concept” culture, dominate much of the theory and practice. The most common debates are over naming eras and redefining terms like popular, culture, popular culture, etc. Despite the debate, the historiography maintains four important foci for the construction of cultural values: industrialization and the Progressive Era, the influence of industrialized media, the concept of shifting contexts, and a reference an attempt to identify the “word-concept” of “the people”. Like the construction, the dissemination of cultural values has a historiography filled with competing ideologies on semantics and time frames, but there is one important disseminator of cultural values that nearly every historian, theorist, and critic agrees is primarily essential: the media. Interpreted broadly, media refers to any host of dissemination avenues, from Shakespearian plays to blue jeans and shopping malls, from museums to movies. Whether popular, mass, folk, or highbrow, American cultural values connect with “the people” consistently through varied forms of media messaging.