Culture Values and Ethics Shana S. Brown COM 525 Managerial Communications and Ethics Instructor: Jerry Barkley University of Phoenix-Charlotte Campus February 28‚ 2005 Cultural Values and Personal Ethics I will be discussing how I make decisions‚ based on my cultural values and personal ethics to interact with people of different cultural values and ethics in society and the workplace without conflict. According to Peters (2003)‚ "Personal ethics have been defined as principles of good
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What childhood experiences might have shaped Mortenson’s adult choices? Explain When he was little one‚ he lived with his parents in Tanzania‚ because his father worked a lot in order to build a Christian central medical in that place and his mother was a teacher where he was in the school where there were a lot of kids that were from 28 different nations so he learned to speak different language from that country and place. Then he graduated and got the degree of chemistry and nursing‚ so then
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American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements‚ scientific and religious competitiveness‚ political structures‚ risk taking and free expression‚ materialist and moral elements. Despite certain consistent ideological principles (e.g. individualism‚ egalitarianism‚ and faith in freedom and democracy)‚ American culture has a variety of expressions due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity. It also includes elements that evolved from Indigenous Americans‚ and other ethnic
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102 Crn#20189 Radio; Directed‚ Mike Tollin Released: October 24‚ 2003 1. James Robert Kennedy nicknamed‚ ’Radio’ because of his vintage radio amassment and his love of music‚ is a loner in Anderson‚ South Carolina‚ pushing his ever-present grocery cart up and down the streets. He verbalizes with no one and is infrequently verbalized with‚ until one day‚ Coach Harold Jones‚ one of the town’s most reverenced men‚ and coach of the popular high school football team‚ befriends him. Radio is suspicious
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American Culture American culture is something that is kind of hard to define. As an “outsider”‚ I think this is a good thing. It is easy to be impressed with other cultures such as Chinese‚ Japanese‚ and European cultures‚ just to name a few. These civilizations are so much older than American culture‚ it is to be expected that theirs may be more impressive to some‚ and there is nothing wrong with that. In referring to American culture‚ I realize that Native American culture is a large part of
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What is culture? * Culture is learned through experiences‚ observations‚ listening‚ talking‚ interacting with others‚ etc. * Our own cultural learning depends on the uniquely developed human capacity to use symbols‚ signs that have no necessary or natural connection to the things they stand for or signify. * Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as ideas based on cultural learning and symbols. * Sometimes culture is taught directly. (ex: parents tell their kids to say thank
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Values of Indonesian Culture Every culture has its own assumptions and values about what it believes and considers right. When it comes to assumptions and values‚ people tend to be subjective because the value itself has been planted in them since they were young. Those values are being planted in their mind until they believe in it as if it is the right one. It also happens in my home country’s values. Tradition believes older people have earned respect‚ because they have survived. Also‚ Indonesians
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What is Culture? photo of Edward. B. Tylor Edward B. Tylor (1832-1917) The word culture click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced has many different meanings. For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature‚ music‚ art‚ and food. For a biologist‚ it is likely to be a colony of bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a nutrient medium in a laboratory Petri dish. However‚ for anthropologists and other behavioral scientists‚ culture is the full range of
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Explain the idea of myth and show how it is helpful to explain any American cultural form. Culture shapes the way we think. It is the society’s system of shared‚ learned values and norms; these are the society’s design for living. It has an influence on the way we look‚ our habits‚ our tastes and the way we relate to others. Values are an abstract of ideas which are about the good‚ the right and the desirable. Norms are the social rules and guidelines. The definition of myth is a “popular belief
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In the United States‚ we have many different values present. Some of these include freedom‚ independence‚ justice and equality. We are a melting pot of cultures and in such‚ we see a wide variety of value systems at play. For our first Individual Work Worksheet‚ you will explore three values that you think are central to American culture. From there‚ let’s define ethnocentrism. Is it ethnocentric to be nationalistic? Finally‚ define cultural relativism. Are values culturally relative? Why/Why
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