Synthesis Essay on Family and Culture

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Synthesis Essay The knowledge a person gains from reading about different cultures changes their outlook on those specific cultures and impacts their view on cultures in the world around them. Culture is a collective group of things that defines itself, like art, ideas, skills, traditional beliefs, etc… and people that are passed through generation to generation carrying these traits of culture. Cultural experiences are experiences that people involve themselves to have with culture. Traveling into a different country may act as a cultural experience for someone who’s from outside of the country or culture; or just simply venturing outside of their normal cup of tea. Cultural experiences shape the way people see and understand the world around them, and the two cultural experiences which most powerfully shape people’s perspectives on life are family and religion. Family can change a person’s perspective or view because the importance of family is building bonds and sticking together no matter what changes a person. Family can change a person’s perspective or view because the importance of family, building bonds, and sticking together no matter what changes a person. In the story An Indian Father’s Plea, cultural experiences in a Native American upbringing are lightened, ‘At the age of 5, he has already been through quite and education compared with his peers in Western Society. As his first introduction into this world, he was bonded to his mother and to the Mother Earth in a traditional native childbirth ceremony. And he has been continuously cared for by his mother, father, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and extended tribal family since this ceremony’ (Lake 109). This relates to the saying, “It takes a village” and puts into literal terms, ‘It takes a long time to absorb and reflect on these kinds of experiences, so maybe that is why you

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