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This writing assignment will describe how cultural bias affected my decision making, with turning a simple gesture of kindness into a regrettable moment in life. Unfortunate moments in life occurred when cultural bias could manipulate my decision-making process. As cultural bias made me feel compelled to always contribute gestures of kindness as part of the neighboring cultural bond. Neighboring cultural bond is a decision-making willingness sense for the well-being of the entire neighborhood through trust and the pledge to help thy neighbor. A pledge to help thy neighbor decisions were weighed without giving much thought, especially if it helped someone else. Occasionally, this thoughtless decision driven by cultural bias turned a thoughtful gesture awry wrong and led up to a series of unfortunate events. The series of unfortunate events all began with a friend asking to borrow my car.
Normally, the neighboring cultural bond bias would have my decision-making process loaning my car to any licensed driver. Loaning a car out to a licensed driver comes with the responsibility of filling the gas tank before returning the car plus returning the vehicle in the same condition as it was loaned out. However, when my friend approached me to borrow my car there was a hesitation. The hesitation came from a
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The failure of him to answer phone calls or respond to texting left a sinking feeling that something went awry wrong. That sinking feeling that something went awry wrong made my decision-making process faulty. I trusted someone close to me enough to loan something of great value for the reason of picking up his mother from the hospital. The car was not borrowed to pick up anyone from the hospital or would it be returned that day. The car was impounded for speeding and driving without a license. Nevertheless, my decision making was faulty twice influenced by the need to help family and
The prejudice facing the Chinese, Native Americans, and Hispanics defined western society with different forms of legislature or economic pressures on these groups. The group had been subjugated since the formation of the United States and during its latest expansion was the Native Americans, who in this most recent expansion were moved to reservations, engaged in several bloody wars with white Americans, and forced to give up their lifestyle or their new created one in the land that was promised to them, like Oklahoma. Hispanics, though they had once dominated western society, soon lost control of their land, either due to seizure by whites or through economic competition, and found themselves on the bottom pegs of society, serving as farmhands or industrial workers; they were also excluded from the early governments in New Mexico and other areas. The Chinese, arriving from across the Pacific, found their treatment change from being welcomed to being seen as economic competition and being forced into lower jobs. Throughout the country, the Chinese were considered unwelcome as seen in the Chinese Exclusion Act. Western society found itself to be a society in which many races congregated to work together but also found itself to be a society built on racial tensions.
The world is filled with many different types of societies and cultures. This is due to the fact that many people share dissimilar beliefs and ideas, as well as diverse ways of life. People lived under different circumstances and stipulations, therefore forming cultures and societies with ideas they formulated, themselves. These two factors, society and culture, are what motivate people to execute the things that they do. Many times, however, society and culture can cause downgrading effects to an assemblage if ever it is corrupt or prejudiced. Society and culture not only influences the emotions individuals have toward things like age differences, religion, power, and equality but also the actions they perform as a result.
Joel Spring’s Deculturization and the Struggle for Equality has made me evaluate myself and my actions regarding race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. Not only that, it has also pushed me to examine how my friends and family treat different cultures, and how I can guide them to be more open and respectful of those different cultures if necessary. This text exposed me to information that guided me to think harder and deeper, some very surprising information, and made me think about my own personal experiences and how they relate to Spring’s text.
In conclusion, Becker’s argument concerning cultural interaction in his article, Culture: A Sociological Viewpoint, is flawed because of the use of fallacious analogies, historical record of rapid social change and uniqueness of micro social situations. Becker fails to acknowledge the diverse array of subcultures within larger cultures that challenge social norms as well as the diversity of socioeconomic factors that can alter a person’s life experience and decision making within a culture. In short, one does not need to adhere to cultural norms to be a member of a wider culture such as American culture.
In social work profession, it is notably important that a practitioner be able recognize aspects of their decision making that may be motivated by uncontrollable circumstances such as past experiences, family values, and personal values. Uncontrollable circumstances, such as the examples listed above, all attribute to personal biases a practitioner may display when working with individuals, groups, families, or communities. A personal bias is the negative or positive perspective or demeanor, both knowingly and unknowingly, of any particular individual, or group of individuals, based on different diversity factors that may skew the way that an individual interacts or perceives an individual or group (Miller, Cahn, Anderson-Nathe, Cause, Bender, 2013). Therefore, as a social worker, the importance of practicing self-awareness is that it helps the practitioner to shuffle through personal biases, and in return, aid in social justice and be effectively responsive to diversity factors in the practice setting (Bender, Negi, Fowler, 2010).
In the short story “Melting Pot” the conflict occurs between the families with diverse cultures.
As Indians living in white culture, many problems and conflicts arise. Most Indians tend to suffer microaggressions, racism and most of all, danger to their culture. Their culture gets torn from them, and slowly, as if it was dream, many Indians become absorbed into white society, all the while trying to retain their Indian lifestyle. In Indian Father’s Plea by Robert Lake and Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, the idea that a dominant culture can pose many threats to a minority culture is shown by Wind-Wolf and Alexie.
If we aren’t understanding of the variances between cultures and the way they communicate verbally, emotionally, and nonverbally this can create considerable issues. The three primary problems that could arise if we don’t have an understanding of cultural differences are the ways we interpret others comments and actions, how we predict future behaviors, and conflicting behaviors of others (“Differences in Culture,” n.d). Culture plays a significant part in peoples lives because it shapes our personal values and views on the world. Having a perspective and understanding a persons culture is important because each culture is different in respect to personal views and behaviors, but it is key to respect their culture because just like us it shaped who they are. The reason we have stereotypes of other cultures is because of this particular reason, we assume that our culture is superior and the correct way to do things. For example, I have heard the stereotype that French people are impolite, offensive, and they hate Americans, but was this stereotype created because of a misunderstanding between cultures? Cultural differences can be educational because it allows us to understand the uniqueness of a culture and allows us to learn new things. Cultural differences allow people to feel a sense of belonging, which can be empowering knowing
In Pico Iyer’s personal essay, “Where Worlds Collide”, Iyer shows that people’s culture affects their decisions and emotions when they are in a culture completely different than theirs. “They see Koreans piling into the Taeguk Airport Shuttle and the Seoul Shuttle, which will take them to Koreatown without ever feeling they’ve left home” (Iyer 64). Even though the immigrants are in a new culture, they let things that reminded them of home influence their decisions in America. In addition, the visitors of America allow their culture to affect their emotions. “…the snack bar where a slice of pizza costs $3.19 (18 quetzals they think in horror or 35,000 dong)” (Iyer 64). When the immigrants arrive in America, they are shocked by the high prices for small things, like pizza. In their home country, snacks are usually lower in price.
In chapter one of the book, America Ways, Gary Althen (2011) enlighten people about the concepts of value and assumption in U.S. American culture. the author's clarification of values and assumptions is related to cover a certain criteria customarily to U.S. American culture. However, the author admitted that every culture has a different view in categorizing values and assumption.
I think that my cultural background does not affect how I handle conflict. Even though I am Hispanic and people tend to think that we are loud and problematic, I am the total opposite and personally don’t even like conflict at all. On the other side, being a Christian is what has helped me handle conflict. I always put myself in the other shoes and think twice before I do something that might harm another person. I think the Christian worldview as a cultural background that can help anyone handle conflict in a better way. When you have Jesus in your heart and the fear of God, you wouldn’t do things that can damage others. In regard to Christian worldview, I speak for myself because I have seen other people who proclaim themselves as Christians
In explaining Cultural Relativism, it is useful to compare and contrast it with Ethical Relativism. Cultural Relativism is a theory about morality focused on the concept that matters of custom and ethics are not universal in nature but rather are culture specific. Each culture evolves its own unique moral code, separate and apart from any other. Ethical Relativism is also a theory of morality with a view of ethics similarly engaged in understanding how morality comes to be culturally defined. However, the formulation is quite different in that from a wide range of human habits, individual opinions drive the culture toward distinguishing normal “good” habits from abnormal “bad” habits.
It was October 1998 when an infant was born in New Delhi, India to a relatively unwealthy family. Two years later, this family made a migration from India to the opposite side of the planet, in the United States. The young infant alongside this family was no other than myself, which meant that I was going to grow up in a society much unlike that of which my parents and ancestors grew up in, a culture that I did not easily fit in socially, mentally, and even physically. Even though my foreign background has caused much of a struggle throughout my life, it did allow me to learn a few but critical lessons that I simply cannot thrive without.
This report will address three fundamental themes of intercultural comm-unication: stereotyping, discrimination, prejudice, essentialism, and their func-tions in every day life, relativism and ethnocentrism as a role in worldview, and the rapid increase in cultural diversification around the world. Gender and sexuality are not deemed relevant to the case at hand, and will not be exam-ined in this report.
Individuals learn of cultural identity through the acculturation process. Megan* established her cultural identities and I learned about my own cultural identities, through our communication encounters (Guo, 2016). Megan identifies herself as of Samoan-Tokelauan ethnicity (collectivism) but considers her ‘home’ as Seattle in the United States of America (individualism). Thus, she is influenced by collectivist and individualist worldviews. Individualism versus collectivism determines how people live together, alone, in families or tribes and their values and how they communicate (Samovar, Porter, McDaniel & Roy, 2015, p.233). Both of these worldviews have contributed to determining Megan’s values of family, respect and religion and how they