Emotion refers to physical sensations commonly expressed as feelings within different cultural contexts. There various kinds of emotions including biologically derived ones whose occurrence is not solely dependent upon social influences. Other feelings are culturally specific and are taught within given cultures. Yet other emotions such as feelings of guilt, shame and envy are mainly driven by an individuals mind. Indeed, emotion is an extremely unique quality among people that make them human. In majority of settings, emotions play a pivotal role in the determination of the quality of individual members’ relationship with each other. Emotions are mainly crucial when it comes to creating, monitoring and preserving social bonds. In many traditional communities, globalization comes with a myriad of surprises for many rural communities. This paper seeks to highlight pivotal aspects of an emotion that is considerably in its initial phase. Kapula is a fictional community found along the shores of River Nile. Within the community, there are various rules and regulations that govern its members’ actions. As a result of this, majority of emotions in the tightly knit community are culturally specific in nature. A member of this community, for instance, is expected to communicate to their members in certain pre determined ways. Feelings have an extremely significant influence on how individuals react to certain tendencies (Hochschild, 1979). In other words, just like in any other
Culture builds up and shapes how people view the world and the people in it. It determines how we judge and view the way others act, look, and even how they think. In the texts “Where worlds collide”, “An Indian Father’s Plea”, and “Two Kinds”, it is shown that a person’s views of others and the world are solely determined by their culture.
Living in a culture that is unfamiliar to one’s own can be both overwhelming and a challenging process regardless of what country you are from. The Western traditions, values, and social norms can be quite different than those from back home. Oftentimes, when individuals relocate from their homeland to a new and more developed nation, they carry their own background, life experiences, and traditions with them. For this reason, these factors shape how they perceive and adapt to their new surroundings. To be precise, individuals commonly experience what is known as “cultural shock”, which describes the stress, disorientation, and the feelings of confusion that arise when entering a strange or foreign culture.Therefore staying committed to ancient family traditions can be difficult, which may then turn cultural transition into an ongoing battle for many. In particular, this paper will be analyzing the film, the Split Horn, through a social anthropologist's perspective and with the help of the Holistic model of health, including alternative understanding methods to further examine what certain families go through.
Without the Nile River, Egypt today may not have existed. The Nile River helped shape Ancient Egypt’s diverse culture and various philosophies, which is what made it a very successful (if not the most successful) ancient civilization. The Nile did this in numerous ways such as allowing travel, producing art and religion, and flooding so that people could grow crops. Without the Nile, the success of Ancient Egypt would have been debateable. Ancient Egyptians did have the Nile River however, which led to their ultimate success for almost 3,000 years.
The chapter continued to discuss how people experience other cultures when they are removed from their area to a different place. This occurs in the form of culture shock people experience new traditions that are unfamiliar to them when the come to a place that is home to another culture. Human development may also include joining the ideas of various cultures and forming it into a new concept. It puts heavy emphasis on learning other cultures in an unbiased form in order to compare and make observations. This chapter also studies of culture have been able to advance over time and how change is an essential aspect of
Culture shapes our image of people, food, the way we dress, and even our opinion on certain topics whether political or social. Important Information. In the text such as in “An Indian Father’s Plea”, “Everyday Use”, and Two Kinds, culture impacts the way one’s outlook is on the world around them.
The Nile river shaped ancient Egypt in many ways. The Nile was important to everyone who lived in ancient Egypt. Without the Nile River the ancient Egyptians would have never survived. The Nile was a big part in everything that the Egyptians did. The Nile took a big part in agriculture, economics, and religion in ancient Egypt.
Did you know that the Nile river gives crops water?Although the flooding season and the farming population would build government projects. But with not enough water in the crop season would be poor. The Nile flood cycles are Akhet(flood season) Peret(planting & growing season).With too much water the Nile too much water in it will destroy homes. (Doc B). Did you know about 500 miles of the Nile is in Egypt?Provided they used transportation to get to there crops.
The world is filled with many different types of societies and cultures. This is due to the fact that many people share dissimilar beliefs and ideas, as well as diverse ways of life. People lived under different circumstances and stipulations, therefore forming cultures and societies with ideas they formulated, themselves. These two factors, society and culture, are what motivate people to execute the things that they do. Many times, however, society and culture can cause downgrading effects to an assemblage if ever it is corrupt or prejudiced. Society and culture not only influences the emotions individuals have toward things like age differences, religion, power, and equality but also the actions they perform as a result.
Culture is the lens through which we view the world; it is the mirror we use to reflect and interpret reality. It teaches us how to think and what to think about. It reveals to us what is beautiful or ugly, helpful or harmful, appropriate or out of place. In effect, every culture provides with a series of lessons. Among the lessons we learn are how to say “hello” and “good-bye,” when to speak or remain silent, how to act when angry or upset, where to focus our eyes when functioning as a source and receiver how much to gesture, how close to stand to another, and how to display emotions such as happiness or rage. By instructing members, culture guides behavior and communication, revealing to them how to act, think, talk, and listen.
Actually, people always misunderstand the term “culture”. It`s not a thing. It is a process by which ordinary activities acquire emotional and moral meaning for participants. @1 Cultural processes is flexible, including the embodiment of meaning in habitus and physiological reactions, the understanding of what is
The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in history one of the things that most help the Ancient egyptians was the Nile river.The Nile river is located in egypt and was a huge benefit to the Ancient Egyptians (Transportation,Water,Food),. Today i am going to explain why that is.
A river today could be classified as physical feature that is a stream of water that deposits into a sea, lake or other body of water. The Nile river, the longest river in the world that can be found in Egypt is just that- a stream of water that deposits into the Mediterranean Sea. However, what the Nile river means now is totally different than what it meant hundreds of years ago. For the ancient Egyptians, it was more than just a river- the Nile river was their light in the darkness, their god- it was their culture.
The way every being experiences the world around us is mostly constructed by the culture we are exposed to and brought up in. The world makes sense to us because of the ways culture influences our perception. We experience the world around us in a time, space, and mentality that are built solely by culture. The Kaluli are a tribal clan from Highland New Guinea who experience their lives through reciprocity. The way the Kaluli form relationships amongst one another, communicate, and practice their everyday lives is based through gift-giving and reciprocity. The Kaluli are socially dependent beings who have constructed a social mechanism in which everyone participates in the art of reciprocity to maintain and build these social relations
Chapter 3 explores the concept of universally shared basic emotions, an idea that was first advanced as a theory by Charles Darwin. Paul Ekman and Jakk Panksepp studied the concept of
In traditional societies, to begin with, there is a strong fellow-feeling; everybody is considered a friend and is expected to act this way, in case of personal or family