The Importance of Respecting Other Cultures

Culture can shape us as individuals in many different ways. Things such as gender and race play a big part on shaping us as individuals. Culture shapes how we as people view world. Webster’s dictionary defines culture as “The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon man’s capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. It is also the customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group” (Webster). Studies show that people that are of different cultures perceive and see things much differently, this is most likely because of how their culture shaped how they view and act with the world. I believe that a lot of people sometimes overlook how one culture can be different for each person and in turn be pretentious by it differently.

Culture influences different people by the way they do stuff. People can take all sorts of different things and make them their own. In today’s world people take all sorts of different cultures and make it there own. For example take music, dances, clothes, food, and a whole plethora of other things that people of society enjoy. Culture can be defined by how we live our every day life these include art, religion, music and a bunch of other things of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called 'the way of life for an entire society.' Like I have said before culture includes mannerisms, language, religion, how we dress, the norms of behavior such as law and morality, and the systems of belief including the art. For example, In Confucian tradition, a person is taught to bring out the best in others, to observe moral principles in one, and not to compare others friv...

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... a person cannot fully exist by themselves, and that a person will only reach there highest form of existence when they mentally split between others, themselves, and the environment.

Most people agree that culture has a huge effect on how we live our daily lives and how it can influence what we may wear, say, listen to, and all sorts of others. Up until recently, most of the psychology and neuroscience researchers took advantage of what they found in there research told them about various cultures. In the past 10 years or so, there has been research to unwind cultural belief and how it can shape our thoughts and behaviors. Culture can shape us as individuals in many different ways. Hopefully one day all cultures can be praised and shared throughout the world, even though culture can separate us on how we think, we can still embrace others ideas and learn from them.