Saturday, October 22, 2011
Week 9 Question 1
After reading more about this section and really analyzing it I would have to agree with Ruth Benedict. We really are creatures of our culture. We make up our culture and our culture makes up who we are. Culture really shapes our lives, just like we shape every view, tradition and standard of our cultures. We build habits out of what we know, we learn from the people that surround us. We take after things that we see and that we grow up around. Culture very much affects the way we live, the things we believe in and the impossibilities that we face. Everything we do is shaped by our culture, whether we see it or not. I believe that our beliefs are very influenced by our culture because you tend to follow the faith of your family and maybe even friends that surround us. We pick up on others habits, beliefs, religions, ect. We can and should learn to expand from our cultures, experience other cultures and find things we like that we can bring back to our own cultures. You don't have to be stuck in one atmosphere, one belief system or one set of traditions.
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I absolutely agree with you. I talked about the same thing but I especially liked how you mentioned that we follow out family and even friends sometimes. I always believed in you are who your friends are. In many cases we do thing like our family members because they are our role models in a way. We grew up around them and I think that for the most part they stay our role models and we trust them more than we trust else who. I think that this is another reason how we base our culture. We grew up looking up to our parents and that is the reason a lot of people say "like mother like daughter" or "like son like father".
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