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Tunnel Vision: Culture-Bound Value And Class-Bound Values
The two concept that relates to the “Tunnel Vision” episode are, culture-bound values and class-bound values. In this episode Katy is a young women that got into a habit of spending every minute of the day doing something she deem productive and Brandy is a mother who accidently used a credit card that was for work and go fired, after that she got fired and she could no longer keep her finance balance. What Katy deems productive is to exercise and to keep a good interactive network with her friends, this is Katy culture value. While Brandy culture value is to be a good mother to her kids, which is to keep the house fully stock in what she deem as necessary supplies. As seen here, Katy culture value is interaction with friends while Brandy

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