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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.

In the text this week we learned about different cultures and the different behaviors in these cultures. In

Culture is not a fixed phenomenon, nor is it the same in all places or to all people. It is relative to time, place, and particular people. Learning about other people can help us to understand ourselves and to be better world citizens.

Culture is the shared values, norms, language, customs and practices of a group. It also refers to different sub-groups within society. It is important to understand how culture affects our behaviour in order to gain a full understanding of the people we encounter and those we work with. Watson found that the average amount of eye contact made varied between countries, with high degrees of eye contact being seen as insolent by some Africans and East Asians, whereas among Indians and Latin-Americans this was seen as desirable.

According to our textbook, Myron W. Lustig defines cultural patterns as “shared beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are stable over time and that lead to roughly similar behaviors across similar situations”. By documenting the four infants from different regions of the world and capturing their first breaths throughout toddlerhood, it offers a glimpse of the major differences in cultures and methods of child-raising. The film carefully captures the different cultural contrasts of the babies through methods of sanitation and haircuts, differing pets and toys each interact with. From spit baths, tongue baths, and showering in the arms of the parent, we discover the sanitization methods of the differing cultures in the way the children are bathed. From haircuts with a knife or shears, we learn of the cultures development compared to one another. With Ponijao’s hair being cut with a knife rather than shears, we understand that Namibia is less developed. Also by analyzing their pets differing between cats, dogs, flies or farm animals and the toys they play with such as books, lego blocks, rocks, bones, we learn of their environments, their parents and their financial statuses.

There are cultural differences within all the communities that make up the world, we are constantly surrounded and reminded of these other cultures. In this paper cultural differences will be discussed from the film “Why Did I Get Married?” which is an African-American movie about the hardships one goes through in marriage, friendships, and trust. This paper is going to give specific examples of Hall’s perspective of culture on the screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions that are reflected in a particular pattern. Examples of both verbal and non verbal intercultural communication and how they relate to particular intercultural

Critics of cultural theory claim, since it has a microscopic view, that it is too narrow. A few questions that are proposed, but cannot be answered utilizing cultural theory alone: “So what is some people experience everyday life in certain ways?

6. Culture is definitely experienced differently by members within a given society. These experiences are shaped by various factors including class,education,religion, and upbringing, and in some cases race and gender depending on the society. A wealthy businessperson may have completely different interactions with police than would a minority individual in a poverty stricken environment. A person who prefers to live

In this essay, I am going to deliver a wider understanding of globalisation through the study of a fast food restaurant, subway to be precise. I am focusing on a branch of the restaurant in Bradford, paying attention to the sorts of customers who patronise it as well as the staff who

A culture is defined as the “way of life of a group of people - the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.” www.tamu.edu. As well the definition of Cultural Encounters “is a concept which is often used in current public and academic discussions on the conditions of modern societies”. Www.en.cgs.aau.dk. Cultural Encounters spotlight on the study of cultural characters and symbolic representational and interpretational forms through an international, cross-cultural and global perspective. Cultural Encounters raises the multiplicity of ideas available to society as a whole and

The cultural surrounding of physical and social aspects of a person's life depends on a pattern of a social environment. In the movie, Crash there were several incidents of how people socialize with each other. They are interdependence towards one another even with a high level of

Food has long been used as a tool for dialogue and the fostering of positive feelings (Chapple-Sokol 2013). The ‘breaking of bread’ and the drinking of wine/tea are used by many cultures as a symbolic representation of the coming together of people. After all, to share a dinner table means to share life and a sense of ‘homeliness’ together (Hage 1997) even if only for the briefest moment. This idea - that food is a tool that encourages dialogue and influences our emotions and actions positively - forms the basis of my research. My study argues that when ‘youth’ of different cultural backgrounds prepare and consume food together, it can contribute to the ‘everyday peace’ in Melbourne.

This paper will discuss the multifaceted relationships among food, and culture. I will be looking at the relationships people have with food, and explore how this relationship reveals information about them. Their food choices of individuals and groups, can reveal their ideals, likes and dislikes. Food choices tell the stories of where people have travelled and who they have met along the way.

Food is very much a part of pop culture, and the beliefs, practices, and trends in a culture affect its eating practices. Pop culture includes the ideas and objects generated by a society, including foods, and other systems, as well as the impact of these ideas and objects on society. For example, Mcdonald's is another of the thousands of fast food chains that populate our cities though they often use the term “popular culture” only to refer to media forms. Their popularity has also increased internationally. Although all humans need food to survive, people's food habits and how they obtain, prepare, and consume food, are the result of learned behaviors. Mcdonald’s, like other food chains, has made an effort to ‘localize’ its products so that they will be more successful in each different cultural context. These collective behaviors, as well as the values and attitudes they reflect, come to represent a group’s pop culture.

The ethnographic study took place at McDonalds’ shop, Leeds, local market in the afternoon of Monday, 17th