Tim Schultz-Leach
Soc book entry 6
9/18/18
Say the opportunity of your dreams were to come knocking on the door, but it required you leave everything behind. Would you be able to adapt to a whole new culture? Something that sounds so easy, may however be extremely hard. Without the proper understanding of how your new culture would be defined by the society within the nation you’ll be living. Would you be able to learn and understand the language? Aside from being able to read and write it, would your accent be too strong for the inhabits to understand you? I feel if I were to be asked to move across the world in one day, I would have to hesitate. Regardless if I knew where I was going, I don’t think I would be able to comfortable adapt to a new place of residency without the common knowledge of their culture.
One way I can use culture to benefit society would be by going outside of my comfort zone and learning about different cultures throughout the world to better understand those who come from them. One way I could potentially hurt society with culture is by making stereotypes about these country’s citizens based off what I find about their cultures.
A way society could benefit me with culture is by having America embrace all the cultures that brought us together, rather than allowing those differences to keep us separated. Society can potentially hurt me along with others by allowing us to understand these different cultures with “facts” which are not true, allowing them to shape our views without truly knowing.
📷 https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-culture-ethnicity-diversity-nation-people-concept-125985334.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtYjUv2x65g I chose this video because as we talked about if we shrank the world down to 100 people, those in America would have a very small number. This would leave many of us very confused and intimidated possibly by other cultures and being the minority.
One way we could hypothetically fix this by combing all cultures and having no source of boundaries on a global scale. People cant be judgmental if they have nothing to judge.
377 words, 3 highlighted words, 1 video, 1 picture, 1 hypothetical solution, 3 chapter sentences
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