Canari Culture Haviland Summary

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Anthropology 111.3 Assignment#1 Submitted to:Dr.Elaine Hulse Submitted by:Cynthia Munroe Canari Culture is shared, learned,based on symbols and integrated.To support this thesis, we must define what culture in general is.In the Haviland textbook, culture is defined as a cultural group who shares the abstract of values, norms, beliefs, and their view on the world.Social beliefs bond the members of that group of people,'when they are acted upon, these elements produce behavior that is intelligible to other members of that culture'(et.haviland2002)on page 38 in the haviland text culture is defined .By doing this, people naturally believe that their culture is smarter and better that any other, ethnocentrism is just apart of the human condition.For example, the united states pretty clearly that their culture is number one this is proven through the ideology they coined as 'The American Dream'.However like everybody else, they have thousands who are starving, homeless, and shamefully under educated.Their murder rate is extremely high.To me, I see that the middle eastern
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