Culture Differences In Clyde Kluckhohn's Mirror Of Men

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Sibo Yang
Basic Writing 3
Mrs. Schroeder
Culture Differences
In the essay “Mirror of Men,” Clyde Kluckhohn introduces the differences in peoples in the entire world. According to Kluckhohn, different cultures, which make people have diverse actions among the same situation, account the differences in peoples throughout the world. With the developing of humans, culture exists within the people that have the exact equivalent psychological progress in the same environment. For example, women in America cannot share the same husband with other female, while people in Siberia cannot understand “how a woman could be so selfish and so undesirous of feminine companionship in the home as to wish to restrict her husband to one mate.” Different peoples who live in different countries or different area have different psychological progress, for they have different education, different society and different jobs. That is why i exist distinctive cultures in the whole world.
With the differences between Western culture and Eastern culture, people have different action with the same situation, for example, food, which is one of the most important parts of people’s life. In China, food is perhaps the most important in the past 5000 years. In China, foods have to have good colors, good smell, good taste, good shapes, and even good meanings. Those five main characters sometimes are more important than the meaning of nutrition; one good dish needs to be good looking and tasty, but do not have to be nutritional, which Americans could not understand. In the Western world, foods are basically the materiel that keeps a person to process, and making a dish is like to finish an experiment. For instance, to make one kind of dish has to put 2 spoons of salt...

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Humans who live in different places that have different geographical conditions create culture, and people in different geographical conditions have different lifestyle, different demand, and different daily activities. Humans’ basic requirement of life was fulfilled with the development of human societies, then the new demand and problems occurred. As time went on, human started to analyze orthodox things, and that was the “prototype” of culture. Cultures in the current human’s society have many disparities due to their unique living environment, but people cannot make the judgment of different cultures. The existence of culture led the developing of human’s society; any country in the world cannot survive without its traditional culture. People should work on the interchange and communication on diverse cultures, but not look down on some other cultures.

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