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Values are defined as the importance or preciousness of something. A long time ago, around the early 16 century the puritans came to the America they live with the Native Americans and had a set of values they both believed in and lived by. One may not expect to find many similarities between both of these groups, but there are many. The Native Americans were not very different than the Puritans. Native Americans valued many things like religion, family, and the concept of things being balanced. Specifically, they strongly appreciated their family. Puritans similar to the Native Americans, the Puritans were more civilized and valued family, life, religion.

When it comes to culture it depends on the state or country that you live in. As we age we teach our children these values and

An example of a value in the USA would baseball. In our culture, baseball is a symbol of family time and fun. In fact, it is sometimes known as “Americas favorite pastime.”

Values are often influenced by different ideologies, so it is important to look at these also.

The values of the modern American society have changed drastically from how they were sixty years ago, in the 1950s. The values of today’s society consist of relationships (social), appearances (clothes), and items of possessions (technology).

As American we often perceive beauty , clothing style , and appearance as an important factor of wealth , social status , and

Social Construction is defined by Society: the Basics as “the process by which people creatively shape reality through social

The social construction theory is based on the reality that the society has created that may seem obvious to a person who agrees to it. In other words, our life experiences and interaction towards others is the way we create our reality through social interaction. This means that we were not born with this sense of knowledge, but was taught through social interaction and our life experiences (Orem 2001a, 7). Social construction is based on the categories of difference which are race, gender, and social class (Ore, 2011a: 8).

My cultural values are also illustrated through my necklace. I assume most values of a normative southern girl. Many people have misconceptions about what all southerners are. I enjoy drinking a glass of sweet tea and listening to country music, I am different, however. I enjoy being laid back and casual, but I do have important values. I have strong opinions about government and the way that I live my own life. The values that I believe in play a very important role in my life. These important values have been greatly influenced by my family. My values include family, education,

Did you ever know that every country has different cultural values and norms that may cause misunderstanding among cultures around the globe? Of course, I didn’t really know that till I migrated from my country to the USA. A long time ago, I believed that the world was filled with homogenous societies which are based upon one culture only and that culture must be my own culture which I must follow as the ethnocentric standard to all other nations in the world. But later, I had experienced living in multi cultural communities and different continents around the globe, such as Africa and Asia, where getting involved in other people’s lives is very common. As a result of my experience, I have realized that American cultural values have less

In the United States of America, we, the people value several things, some of which

Monetary values have changed throughout history because problems presented in each system of commerce. Bartering was among the earliest forms of commerce to present a problem. It did not establish monetary value in anything specific, allowing an individual’s wants or needs to be deemed monetary values. Each seller could make exchange requests based on different things. For example, a starving man could deem grain a commodity if he only manufactures luxury goods. Based on his hunger, the starving man can request to make an exchange of his luxury good with farmers for grain. Given that luxury goods are not a necessity, nor desired by everyone, the farmers can refuse his offer. The man would have to barter with a third party to acquire whatever the farmers were willing to make an exchange for. Inconsistent commodities in bartering made transactions inefficient because it could require multiple exchanges. Standards were established to combat the inefficiency of bartering through establishing value in one set commodity that all would accept. With a standard, the man could obtain grain directly from the farmers because it is mandated that the standard be accepted as debt payment. Therefore, it is more efficient to have a standard which only requires one transaction than to barter. For a matter of convenience, value transferred from virtually any object to specific resources. A common resource used for standards is metal. In early empires and recent nations, gold and/or silver

“We the people of the United States,” value nothing of importance and take a great deal of what they have for granted. There are many things that Americans value and a few really are positive values, but definitely not all American values are important. All of these values have something in common though and that is they all are based off of how other people see each other. These values are money, possessions, physical features, religion, and how Americans idolize celebrities and view social status.

The term Social Construction is an idea or perception of what is normal or acceptable formed and built by individuals or societies around their experiences, these could be opinions or beliefs passed down through generations. They are not rigid or based on a set of instructions, they are as diverse as their creators. What one may feel is an acceptable behaviour, another may find offensive. This could be as complex as plunging a small child underwater to baptism them in the name of a god. Or as simple as sitting to the dinner table to eat your meals. We all do it, consciously or unconsciously and I will certainly be taking a closer look at how I came to opinions I have on whether something is right or wrong in the future.

Jaywalking in a hoodie and a dark skin and you could provoke six bullets straight to the head especially if it is right next to a recently robbed convenience store in Missouri. That is what happened in Ferguson as a result of a gruesome episode of police brutality and injustice. Perhaps the only injustice in this world is the deceptive consciousness with which we convince ourselves that we are infallible. Perhaps it is the very imperfection that contorts every aspect of our lives. That is the irony of life. No matter how much we strive for perfection, there is always residue of imperfection in whatever we do. This nation has made tremendous advancements in civil rights and personal freedoms unparalleled anywhere on this planet but even in the seemingly utopian state of morality in which we currently live, we often encounter certain injustices that remind us that there is so much more to be accomplished in order to perfect justice and to further equality. What was a normal occurrence of injustice in the past has become now worthy of headlines and televised scrutiny. Although extremely reduced by the recent liberal trends in all of Western societies, police brutality is still a societal vice that is nourished by innate racism which the law facilitates through measures that tend to target certain races and minorities.