Cultural Norm Analysis

This week’s topic was how cultural norms can influence behaviors and outcomes. The sociocultural perspective people is the world view people have because of the environment they grew up. There are so many different cultures in this world, and because of globalization the differences between the cultures is not something only anthropologist study, but because of technology, more people get exposed to on a daily basis. Personally, when I grew up I did not get much exposure to other cultures and when you don’t get influenced by other cultures you can easily develop a preference for what you know. The so called this mere exposure effect.
Naturally, we think that we are the best, we want to place people in a category and we have the strong point of view that people from out own ethnic group are the best, we will judge others according to this standard, this is called ethnocentrism. We have instinctively an implicit bias because we generalize the members of another group. Luckily, most people chance their first bad thought and don’t prejudge. It all depends on our attitude how we are …show more content…
When I saw for the first time a child of color, and in front of me other than on television starving to death, I was amazed, he was different, but it did not scare me, I was very curious, I remember asking if he did get sunburn just like me because we were in a pool. Later on I did hear about the immigrants, however most of them moved to the big cities. Slowly, I started to hear about discrimination, and learned that this are negative unjustified behaviors directed at others because of their membership in a particular group. For example, in my country we had the people from Suriname and the Dutch islands, they were, lazy, they brake in houses, and those people were only in Holland for the welfare program. This is what people told us about those people, when you hear that when you are young, you might start to believe