Cultural Background Summary The term culture refers to a way of life – traditions and customs – transmitted through learning‚ which play a vital role in molding the beliefs and behaviors of the people exposed to them. According to Tylor (1871)‚ a British anthropologist‚ culture is that complex whole‚ which includes knowledge‚ belief‚ arts‚ morals‚ law‚ custom‚ and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. These influences are conveyed from generation to generation
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Cultural Background Paper Natesha C. Robinson SCO/100 May 5th‚ 2010 Leslie Hart University of Phoenix Cultural Background Culture is the totality of learned‚ socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects‚ and behavior. It includes ideas‚ values‚ and artifacts of groups of people (Schaefer‚ 2006). Understanding culture can be tricky‚ ever ask “why do people act the way they do?”‚ “what made me do that”‚ “what was I thinking?” Physical abilities‚ educational background
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individual’s background‚ religion‚ and race there are definitely different cultural backgrounds and values‚ still having to live together and survive on one another in this world. Culture backgrounds are founded to be a systematic way of sharing customs‚ beliefs and behaviors. Individual societies use different ways and things to deal with the world and others around them. These ways of coping are passed along from person to person and from generation to generation in the learning process. Cultural backgrounds
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I. Cultural background of Israel A.(geographic setting) The south of Israel is dominated by the Negev desert covering some 12‚000 square kilometres (4‚633 sq mi)‚ more than half of the country’s total land area. The north of the Negev contains the Judean Desert‚ which‚ at its border with Jordan‚ contains the Dead Sea which‚ at −417 meters (−1‚368 ft) is the lowest point on Earth. The inland area of central Israel is dominated by the Judean Hills of the West Bank‚ whilst the central and northern
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systems‚ traditions‚ modes of life and beliefs of the society. It also absorbs from other cultures and undergoes changes with time‚ sometimes beneficial‚ sometimes regressive. When the word "culture" is mentioned‚ we can think of many things as "cultural"‚ such as language‚ clothings... etc‚ because we classify cultures of different places. However‚ culture is so valuable that it has to be kept for thousands of years‚and passed on by one generation to another. Culture is so important that it is more
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Cultural Background Summary Culture is defined as the system of shared beliefs‚ values‚ customs‚ behaviors‚ and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another‚ and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning. Culture helps to understand how things are created‚ developed‚ managed and changed. Each culture is unique‚ People will not find any culture that is exactly like another culture but they can find many similarities. Some similarities
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Personal Cultural Background A person’s identity is unique and has a foundation of various sources. These sources may be different for every person‚ ranging from a person’s upbringing to a person’s religion. This paper will define cultural background and examine the multiple sources that make up my own personal cultural background that helped mold my individual identity. Furthermore‚ the paper will speculate on the extent to which my current identity has been molded by assimilation‚ acculturation
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Fisher Cultural Background My cultural background can be described as very unpleasant‚ I had it hard from all races. My own culture put me down because I was light skin and red hair‚ other culture groups put me down because I was black. From the time I started school until my first year of High School‚ I was known to some races as being to good and yet to another race not being good enough. I learned later on in school that appearance do not reveal much about each other’s backgrounds and experiences
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141 Maundaari Shirer 711 6\1\13 Personal Narrative My blatant lack of care for religion was entirely influenced by my cultural background. My nescient views were caused by a heated dispute between me and my parents. My experience growing up is and will be significantly altered by this moment in my life 2 years ago. My cultural background has an impact on my life growing up‚ as well as how I felt at the time and the significance of the event. The event was intense as it had
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Catholic influences‚ from my parents to the rest of the people living around us. My parents both grew up with those Catholic teachings all their lives as well‚ considering my father grew up in a pure Italian family and my mother came from a Ukrainian background. Today I continue to live my life with those same virtues and have also passed them down to my son the same way my parents did to me. As I have gone through the experiences of assimilation‚ acculturation‚ and a climate of pluralism; my identity
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