Personal Culture And World View

While his coworkers constructed his designs, what hobby did Bernini pursue? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Writing plays and designing stage sets Writing plays and designing stage sets

Our day to day lives can typically involve umpteen interactions with individuals from across the life span whose identity comprises multiple layers. Culture can often be a significant element of identity; thus practicing cultural safety, which can be viewed as an environment where individuals’ cultural identities, rights, and experiences are not challenged or denied, rather they are respected and understood (Williams, 1999), within interactions is essential. Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competence are intertwined in cultural safety, and a principle step in developing and understanding these concepts is examining our own cultural identities and how they shape our worldviews and attitudes. In this paper, I will reflect on my own cultural

There are five words I grew up hearing continuously spoken from the mouths of my parents “Don’t take things for granted.” Unlike what many of my black friends or just black people in general can say, I grew up with everything I could ever ask for and more. My parents don’t consider themselves wealthy; instead they prefer the word comfortable. My mother grew up in segregated schools, but she also grew up in desegregated schools, of which her experience she said wasn’t bad for her. In 5th grade when they first combined whites and blacks it was just her and this other black boy in class and the both of them together were mistaken for being white because of how light their skin was. My father on the other hand had it much worse than my mother segregated or not. The stories he speaks of still to this day

In this paper I will begin by defining personal culture and national culture. After, I will then elaborate my own personal and national culture. I will continue to talk about the subject with the person that I have chosen for my cultural group, my mother, and I will identify her personal and national culture. Lastly, I will talk about my own personality and how it has a connection with my own natural culture; knowing this is important, it lets us know who we are, and how we act with people who are from different cultures.

Arriving at a foreign country at the age of eleven years old was and exiting and yet intimidating experience. High buildings, wide roads, newer and nicer cars on the streets were some of the first things I noticed when I arrived to the city of Los Angeles CA. Living in a country where you were not born in could be difficult some times. Although Spanish is spoken at a grand scale in CA, it was difficult to communicate with and understand the teachers from my classes at the elementary level since all they spoke was English. Los Angeles is a city of great diversity, therefore it is believed to be the perfect place for any person arriving from another country to not feel like a foreign, such believe

Having a Christian mind is a very important part of following God and being a true Christian. Patterns of this world can be very contradicting to having a Christian mind, and can even damage a Christians mind if we are not careful. The Bible teaches us to renew our mind so we do not live a worldly life. These concepts are important when talking about a Christian mind and the renewing of the mind.

Similarly, in my culture gender norms were placed upon males needing to “man up,” and women were seen to be housewives. However, my grandmother wasn’t necessarily your average “house wife.” Indeed, she had children, and cooked for her husband but she also was provider as well. Like I mentioned before she worked at a fabric factory, but later applied to work for a hospital as maintenance. Here was a young mother of four stepping outside of the stereotypical norm to work and ensure stability for her family. Exposure to the workforce was very much embedded into the her children’s lives. Seeing both parents provide towards the household demonstrated a sense of equality among both male and female. As previously noted, my grandparents wanted their children to succeed in life so my grandfather always advised them to do more than he ever could. With money being low and my mom being the oldest she was forced to get a job at twelve. My grandfather helped her receive her first job working at a swat meet. With one child making some money, and two parents working they were able to save enough money to buy a house in the 1980’s.

An attitude are the long lasting beliefs, feelings, and behavioral responses towards social objects such as other people or issues (Attitudes and Behavior, n.d.). Attitudes can either be positive or negative.

Living in Puerto Rico, a small island and country historically influenced by the slave trade, Spanish colonization, exploitation of natives, and the creation of social categories based on skin color, I remember many culturally used expressions alluding to forms of discrimination. One instance of this is when I, being less than 10 years old, used to provoke my brother to get him mad, because as I kid, I used to enjoy that. My brother, who is 9 years older than me, eventually would get so mad that we engaged in physical fist fights from which I would not back off from most of the times. Yet, whether it was from seeing us fight or from me ending up crying, my mom would furiously snap at my older brother calling him abusive. I knew I started, but I could not say that I did or else the punishment would have been to me. Enraged, he would stare at me and call me out without much success in convincing my mother. It was then, when he would conclusively yell either “Of course, because I’m the black one,” or “Yeah, he’s the whiter one. That’s why!” Even though, I am, indeed, of a lighter skin tone that he is, that was not why he was blamed. For my mother, the reason was the age difference and her worry of me getting hurt. For my brother, the discrimination was based on what he looked like and what his skin color socially represented.

The environment, family, and community I have grown up in has shaped me as a person. So far, I grew up in the same house all seventeen years of my life. My personality has grown and molded over the years of middle school and high school based off the lessons I have learned and the things I’ve been through.

(Origin) When thinking about my family and our roots I identify my family’s places or origin as Germany and Ireland. A majority of my family is of German ancestry and the one exception is my grandmother and she is Irish. I identify these too places as where my family came from due to stories that I have hear from family members and to the traits that each member of my family carries. A majority of my family are all blonde hair, with blue or brown eyes which have a lot of similarities to people from Germany. My family as very few of the traits from the Irish side but the only ones the I have been told are that some people in our family freckle a lot

After completing this I am still not completely sure that I have learned much about myself except for maybe one attribute. I am always skeptical about these kinds of surveys as I am very analytical and tend to overanalyze the questions. I have also found that I generally put lower scores than a lot of people I know on these types of tests. I tend to be a little too judgmental of myself so that may or may not have skewed the results. However I will give my input on the results anyway and hopefully have come away having learned something. Another note is that I have not rounded off my scores as to leave the results more accurate than they would otherwise be.

Culture is a way of life. It can be defined as a group of people linked by geographical location, ethnicity, gender or age. Culture can be reflected through language, clothing, food, behavior, spirituality and traditions. The behavioral patterns developed through culture are difficult to change.

Cross cultural psychology and cultural psychology are two fields of psychology that are often confused. Cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology have many similarities and they differ in a few areas. Cross-cultural psychology is a comparative field of psychology that studies the cultural effects on human psychology. A cross-cultural study draws its conclusions from at least two samples of at least two different cultures and compares them in order to examine underlying reasons for diversity between the cultures, as well as the universals that each culture shares with another. Cultural psychology seeks to find the meaningful links between a culture and the psychology of the individuals living within that culture. Cultural psychology's main message is that human behavior is only meaningful when you're studying the behavior of individuals within the particular sociocultural, or in the culture in which the behavior occurs. The comparisons that cross-cultural psychology makes about each culture must begin with cultural studies.

Through testing a visual diagram may reveal various individual’s perspective by aligning an overview with others worldwide perspectives into particular groups. Therefore, by distinctively categorizing a person’s test results to provide a scope, data, and a percentage of a complete diagram and photograph from a worldview perspective based on automatic preference. Meanwhile, these responses may range from a strong, moderate, slim, and diminutive preference. Establishing validity that ethnocentrism may interfere with another person’s worldview towards other cultures, and how it may impact intercultural communication from a worldview perspective. Most of the time, individuals may not have awareness of their unconscious thoughts or behaviors, and how their own conscious worldview spectrum has an affiliation with their beliefs possibly modifying how the world choose to communicate. In addition, a person’s individual worldview may play a role in the implicit preference test results, understanding permitting ethnocentrism to plays a role in beliefs to affect a person’s outlook, and realizing there may not be a difference between stereotypes and being prejudiced based on beliefs.