Are You Really Gonna Eat That?!?
Are You Really Gonna Eat That?!?
Shiloh Jackson
Everest University Online
SYG2000-2016 Principles of Sociology - 2016
Are You Really Gonna Eat That?!? In today’s society things are deemed weird due to our lack of understanding of other cultures eating habits. A Filipino delicacy, known as Balut is a fertilized egg that is incubated until a duckling develops, and then soft-boiled and eaten. Haggis, a Scottish favorite made from the chopped heart, lungs, and liver of lamb or beef and mixed with suet, oats, onions, herbs, and spices, then stuffed into a sheep’s stomach. There is birds nest soup, fried tarantulas, puffer fish, casu marzu, and many more culturally diverse food delicacies in the world, and depending on where your cultural stands you might just say that you would never eat something like that if it was the last thing on earth (Brewood, 2009). Due to differences in our demographics economic struggles and geological location there is a clear concise difference in the things that are viewed as expectable when it comes to our diet. Ethnocentrism is the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors. Cultural relativism is not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms. Although, these terms shed a light on the reasons why we differ so vastly from one another it still boils down to the way we were raised and what has been readily available to us in the region of the world we grew up in. Functionalism is the perspective in sociology according to which society consists of different but related parts, each of which serves a particular purpose (Chegg, Inc., 2013). For example, during a financial recession, some cultural will buy into foods such as rice, corn and wheat because they are limited on funds and food productivity. Instead, some view those as being viewed through wealth and fertility. Since the
Shiloh Jackson
Everest University Online
SYG2000-2016 Principles of Sociology - 2016
Are You Really Gonna Eat That?!? In today’s society things are deemed weird due to our lack of understanding of other cultures eating habits. A Filipino delicacy, known as Balut is a fertilized egg that is incubated until a duckling develops, and then soft-boiled and eaten. Haggis, a Scottish favorite made from the chopped heart, lungs, and liver of lamb or beef and mixed with suet, oats, onions, herbs, and spices, then stuffed into a sheep’s stomach. There is birds nest soup, fried tarantulas, puffer fish, casu marzu, and many more culturally diverse food delicacies in the world, and depending on where your cultural stands you might just say that you would never eat something like that if it was the last thing on earth (Brewood, 2009). Due to differences in our demographics economic struggles and geological location there is a clear concise difference in the things that are viewed as expectable when it comes to our diet. Ethnocentrism is the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors. Cultural relativism is not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms. Although, these terms shed a light on the reasons why we differ so vastly from one another it still boils down to the way we were raised and what has been readily available to us in the region of the world we grew up in. Functionalism is the perspective in sociology according to which society consists of different but related parts, each of which serves a particular purpose (Chegg, Inc., 2013). For example, during a financial recession, some cultural will buy into foods such as rice, corn and wheat because they are limited on funds and food productivity. Instead, some view those as being viewed through wealth and fertility. Since the
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