Culture

Culture is the totality of learned, socially, transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. How we think, what we feel, how we relate to others, and who we think we are all depend on the culture around us. In the video clip, we can see the image “fish/fishes”. There is one fish doesn’t follow the group. Is this fish a brave fish going along on his/her own or has he/she has been kicked out of the group? Through this situation, we can see the different thinking of American and Asian. Americans pay more attention to the individual fish, individual’s movement, and individual’s desires. In contrast, Asians pay more attention to the movement of the group fish. Besides, Americans always talk about the individual fish wanting, to get away from the group, tired of group, hate the group, want to be the leader of the group. Whereas the Asians are more likely to say the individual fish couldn’t get along with group fish and that the group fish kick out the individual fish and they just don’t like this individual fish.

The image “fish/fishes” above shows the different culture between Asian and Western. The differences between Asian and Western cultures can be quite broad in many aspects. Anyone can see the big differences in art, music, history, religion, but the differences go beyond these big domains they come to one simple thing: How they think and how the others think. Researchers investigate how the self and culture continually create each other. People are shaped by culture as they engage with these patterns of meanings and practices, ways of doing everyday life. They also shape the culture in the course of behaving, in the course of talking to other people, in the course of acting, in the course of making products and putting them into the world. Human nature and the ways of being human, ways of being a person, the ways of having a mind are tied to the patterning of those social worlds that you are a part of. This process is called shaping and being...