Similarities Between Cultures

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

Formal norms are written down and normally have a formal punishment for breaking them. Laws, such as drunk driving, are considered formal laws. Informal norms are normally understood and can result in teasing or someone becoming angry if broken. For example, moving to a certain side of the stairs when someone else is using them is considered an informal norm. If you were walking down the in the middle of the stairs, someone might get mad if you do not move.

There are many cultural differences between the United States and France. Some of these are simply social and others are cultural. Hofstede’s Value Dimensions can be used to highlight the differences between the cultures. Individualism vs collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, power distance, and long-term vs short-term orientation are all characteristics that differ between France and the United States.

Between Native American Culture and the society we live in today, there are ample amounts of similarities between the two cultures. Some of the things we share in common are ceremonies, respect for animals and nature, good and bad competition and good and evil create a common world. “Coyote and the Buffalo”, “World on the Turtle’s Back”, and “Brother Bear” show us the many similarities we have with the Native Americans. For example we have just about the same respect for animals and nature as the Native Americans did. We also have ceremonies like church, wedding, funerals and much more. We are also in constant competition. It may may not be the same competition as the Native Americans but we are constantly fighting for our grades, our sports and sometimes our friend. It is not always good

It doesn’t have to be that way. Instead we could be conscience about how our actions affect the world around us; but no if someone were to try to change and make the world better that person would be labeled as a deviant. Ishmael asks if the narrator has heard of the story and the narrator say, “no what story?” Ishmael says that the story has no need to be named or discussed, everyone knows it by heart by the time they are six or seven. No one notices it though because we are all caught up in the story, its not until we take the blinders off that we see the story everywhere. Instead of being labeled as a deviant, everyone goes with the flow and does what they are told, even if it isn’t the right thing to do. This is what happened with the people of Germany during the Nazi reign. Ishmael talks about how Adolf Hitler was able to get the people of Germany to do heinous acts to other people just by feeding them a story. The people in Germany were captives to the story that Hitler was feeding them. There were people in Germany that realized that the story being fed to them was just that a story; but they stayied the course because of the vast number of people enthralled in the story who were willing to give their lives to protect it. Ishmael says to the narrator, “I’m telling you this because the people of your culture are in much the same situation. Like the people of Nazi Germany, they are captives of a story.” What does this mean for us, are we just going along with a story? One might ask, how does one save the world, when the entire world is enthralled in a story? The answer to that question may never answered. The takers are to immersed in the story that is being fed to them to wake up and see what they are doing to the

In America and other countries of similar and contrasting cultures, we like to be right, we like to be on top, and we want to be recognized for both respectively. Competition is an underlying theme in so much of what we do in our daily lives. Whether it’s getting a better grade on a test than your friend, winning a football game or even speeding up faster than the car next to you when the light turns green. Competition, whether we like it or not, surrounds us and we participate in it willingly. We all want to stand on that podium and receive the gold medal, for then we are better than someone else and we can look down upon him or her because we have achieved something they have not. This competition and trying to be better than the person

There has always been a sense in people's hearts for what is right and what is wrong. The sense that tells you to turn that lost wallet or purse into the lost and found. The sense that makes you feel good when you open the door for a stranger, and the sense that helps you make good choices when faced with tough decisions. While this is how most of our minds work, there have always been bad people in this world. They think completely different. Some think its okay to keep a man's watch he forgets in the train station bathroom, while trying to hurry to catch his next ride. Others think its okay to rob a bank. These people had their goodness corrupted by situations they were put in throughout life, turning them into bad people. Everyone is built

After I had read all the short stories. I founded that Native American people they lived in harmony of the sky and earth. Because they believe in each individual living things and their spirit will grant them power which give them faith to prolong in their live. For the Native America, each story is always tight with trust of the some sort spiritual power and those power comes from tiger, hawk or bear in some kinds... Those figures can grants The Natives American power and good fortunes. By offering your Faith into the one of the many figures above. One can reach the spiritual Enlightments and can become one with the natures.

Given the many cultural differences between the native nations and European settlers, hostile relations among the two gradually developed due to a multitude of controversial issues. These issues mainly stemming from the contrast of both sides’ everyday lifestyles and traditions. The native nations and Europeans had polar opposite ideas about what women and men should be and what their roles entailed. “ The difficulty that Europeans had in understanding the alternative gender realities to which they were exposed tells us how strong is the impulse to view established gender definitions in one's own culture as natural rather than socially constructed” (Evans, 1989). Naturally developed gender definitions and norms for the natives were mainly rooted from religious and cultural background. Europeans did not hold the same amount of religious value as the natives did.

The USA is a very diverse nation with many different groups of people, and that being said it is a wonder our nation is able to coexist despite many cultures being integrated within our population. Several things that came to mind while researching this topic were; ,“What kind of social norms do other cultures have?”, “ How would I have turned out if I would have been born in that country with a different culture?”, and “ What do people from a different context think about the way I communicate?”. We oftentimes disregard a very crucial entity that is essential to any civilization, and that is the way the populous communicates with each other. Foreigners oftentimes struggle to adapt living in a new country because they have to overcome many endeavors, and have to deal with the initial culture shock. Aside from learning a new language they have to learn certain social cues that were not used in their native countries, and most of the time they will have to learn the social cues on their own. Even if you learn the language prior to your arrival you will still find it difficult to have a conversation with a local. There are two distinct ways to communicate, and it is oftentimes influenced by the culture an individual is born in. There are cultures that are considered to be high context, and their counterparts would be those who grew up in cultures considered to be low context. An individual’s upbringing greatly influences how well they would be able to adapt to communicating

When comparing cultures, one must form a definition of what culture is. Culture can be easily defined as the social behavior and normality’s found in human societies. It can also be easily made up of a composed arrangement of educated conduct and thought designs. Culture is a sorted out framework since it includes many parts. Throughout the world, there are many cultures that are both very different and also very similar. "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at table, how we greet visitors, how we behave and one million other things." (Cristina De Rossi.)

Both the North and South were based on appearances. As years past and things like education and technology began to progress, so did the styles and culture of the United States (Schultz, 2014). New clothing, language and expectations were sweeping across the north and making their way, albeit at a slightly slower pace, to the south. Because so many in the South were based around agriculture, the South became associated with old-fashioned ideals and out-of-date styles (Schultz, 2014). Although southern farmers did own the land they worked on, and therefore made direct profit off what they sold just as many businessmen in the Northern states, they were increasingly viewed as a lower rank (Schultz, 2014). Associated with uncouth clothing, vulgar

     Hemingway's "The Killers" illustrates that unexplained violence is an integrated part of society.  To acknowledge the cruelties of life is to come to terms with horrifying events that can not be denied.  A person may lack the maturity to cope with everyday life if they do not realize that evil can exist in any given society.

Culture, we all have grown up knowing one, or at times more than one, kind of culture. Everyone has different beliefs and ways of doing things and this usually has to do with our culture and the way we have been raised and brought up. This type of psychology looks into these many different cultures and studies how they affect us as humans and our development, mental processes, and behavior.

Every culture has different beliefs on certain issues such as death, gender, and spiritual practices. Cultural beliefs influence the way patients understand health concepts and how they take care of themselves. Therefore, knowing a patients’ background and culture is a helpful key to solving certain problems. The Hispanic culture is an old and very unique culture that has strong beliefs concerning death, dying, gender, family, and spiritual practices.