Defining My Culture Analysis

People believe that marriage is easy and is the key to love and happiness, but in reality marriage is harder than it looks. Everyone marries for different reasons, for good or for bad. People today don’t understand the meaning of marriage; it is more than just money and appearance. Seeing today’s world of marriage is being influenced by media shows like Jerry Springer, Judge Judy, and Murray makes you realize how society today identifies marriage different. Couples who live unmarried will be happier and have more choices than those that are married in agreement with Catherine Newman’s essay called I Do. Not.: Why I Won’t Marry in the book “Acting Out Culture: Reading and Writing “, by: James S. Miller. Catherine Newman is a writer and an author

My life experiences with different cultures began in my hometown, when Prairie Island Tribal Council members educated students about their culture through lectures, dance, and band performances. This allowed me to appreciate my Mdewakanton classmates’ culture. My exposure to different cultures expanded during an internship at a medical examiner’s office, because death is universal. I learned being culturally respectful and sensitive begins by listening to their stories and experiences before answering their questions honestly and reassuring them the deceased would be treated with respect. As I traveled to rural Honduras on a medical brigade and as a student studying abroad in Italy and Germany, I realized by listening and observing without judgement, I began to understand the cultures. In addition, I discovered generalizations of a culture give an incomplete view and I cannot assume I understand a culture. Instead, individuals are unique based on experiences as well as their culture.

Growing up, I was surrounded by a juxtaposition of numerous cultures due to the fact that my dad is from Bangladesh, my mom is from India, my family is in the Middle East, and my childhood is rooted in a diverse area where I am surrounded by no one like myself. My family would joke about how I was culturally confusing, as I shifted my perspective and filtered my communication almost effortlessly in order to adapt to my environment, however, to me, analyzing those discrepancies between cultures and traditions dazzled me rather than dizzying me.

The basic of understanding a culture and events starts with the individual’s lifestyle. People will always have diverse images, understanding how people live, helps explain how they about their practices in their culture and religion. There is always a division of specialty in a given society. Understanding how and why individuals assume certain status in the society explains how each specialty is used to provide help in the society.

Through reading this play although I find it comical, I learned that the best way to comprehend our culture identity is that we should take our time to take in their way of living to really

I agree with your post about the competence which always involves having an open mind, and being respectful when dealing with different cultures. Learning, accept and respect other cultures is an important step for having new experiences and learning about the world. Each patient requires respect and acceptance as a human being. Another important factor is the communication, which is the corner stone of nurse patient relation. The purpose of the relationship is to help the patient, to promote healing, and to support functioning. Provide Cultural Competence Training for Employees is also important factor. Training also should be included as part of new-hire training and/or annual competency review. The main reason is the cultural competence

I understand the term “cultural competence” is the ability to naturally navigate through (social) environments taking into consideration people’s different cultural views and promote the views of others – not to the detriment of others.

recognizing someone else’s culture and valuing it this allows for that person to feel integrated

Culture is like food. Picking individuals that love a certain type. Being a mango in a strawberry patch not knowing if this is my identity. A mango, a odd ball in a strawberry patch shows me that my identity is like being in a mexican parade, with a ?hopeless? sign tied to my back.

The video, “Inside Mecca”, represents Islamic culture in Saudi Arabia. I found it very interesting on behalf of the God they worship and all of the rituals they do as symbolism for their beliefs. A Muslim is a person who follows the monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. It makes me think of how cultures can be compared. In this documentary it explains how the Hajj ceremony works and the specific scenarios that go one during the annual event. In this video, there are not only Islam people, but three different races that choose to go the Hajj as well. There was an American woman, South African man, and a Malaysian man as well

Great pose Georgie; I enjoyed how you brought out the “American joe” stereotype. I did not catch that stereotype when I watch the video clip. I also enjoyed the points brought out about how our beliefs can be barriers in themselves. I too am guilty of letting my beliefs cloud my ability to be culturally mindful of others. To become more culturally mindful we should defiantly try to think before we speak, when talking to new people. It is always easier if we already know our audience, but with a new audience, we need to constantly be aware of what feedback they are give off when communicating. In addition, instead of using other cultures as jokes it is best to stay away from offensive cultural

When these people take on this particular lifestyle, they are defining and showcasing what pieces of culture are on the inside of them. They are using what they were brought up in and refocusing it on the objects that allow them to present themselves in a complex society that is driven in a million and one ways. They are redefining culture for themselves. The adults in the film are removing themselves from the world's current situation, from their upbringing, and from technology to take actions that will mean something to them personally. Culture is being used as a opportunity to experience the world, a glorious landscape, through the products of nature, forgotten practices, and broad and objective perspectives of reality.

I totally agree with your point on the second paragraph. I think different culture is difficult to understand because people are so familiar with their own culture. When I was in China, it was really hard to go to sleep in New Year, because people would come outside to light the firecrackers. Some Chinese people only used the ones that makes sound, not the fireworks, and it bothered me a lot. It was loud and it made the ground dusty. I thought people are not respecting those who are sleeping, but everything was explained when my Chinese teacher told me the meaning of it.

From a simple image of a refrigerator, I was able to deduce many different values, race, class, gender, age, and approximate location of residence of the individual or individuals who own this refrigerator. All of these pieces of information add up to equal the owners’ culture. It is important to understand different cultures because as George Gmelch writes, “as the world’s economies intertwine and its societies move closer to becoming a ‘global village,’ it is more imperative than ever that we seek to understand other peoples and cultures. Without understanding there can be neither respect, mutual prosperity, nor lasting peace” (56). Being able to identify and understand different cultures is an important skill to have, even it is simply the ability to make assumptions about a person’s culture by examining a photo of a

Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1962) identify over 150 scientific definitions of the concept of culture. Indeed, many authors have tried to define culture and this is why there are so many definitions and that a unique one is hard to find. First of all, Kroeber and Kluckholn (1952) assume that culture is a suite of patterns, implicit and explicit, “of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artefacts” (p.47). Later, Hofstede adds that culture is “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another” (Hofstede, 1991, p.51). This definition is the most widely accepted one amongst practitioners. For Winthrop (1991), culture is the distinctive models of thoughts, actions and values that composed members of a society or a social group. In other words,