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Personal Cultural Norms To Change Their Personal Values

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Values differ depending on the person and their culture upbringing according to (Manning,Curtis, McMillen, & Attenweiler, (2011). Personal values are a set of guidelines that we live by in order to make the best ethical decisions in life. Indeed, this changes over time for many people because of highly stressful events that occur beyond our control. In fact, those stressful events can make a person reevaluate their personal value system altogether. For instance, many young African American have been target of recent police shootings. In light of such emotional events of racial profiling, I now urge my children to change their personal cultural norms to avoid becoming targets. While I only seek to challenge the status quo for this discussion,

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