Ethnocentrism is the way an individual look at the world from his/her own beliefs in their culture. They feel that their culture, race, or ethnic group is more significant and that their culture is more superior than any other culture of other groups. In feeling this way the individuals will judge other groups, such as their behavior, the language in which they use, religion. How it could be detrimental to society is that it could lead to false speculation about the differences in cultures. It leads to society making premature judgments about other cultures, not knowing all the facts about another culture.
051.3.1. Explain how people from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in different ways. Backgrounds are a person’s education, experience, and social/ economics circumstances. Experiences and understanding of the world, the words we use and how we use them is influenced by your culture. In this sense, communication is very dependent on backgrounds, such as all about our origins: geographic, religion, social, economic, education, etc.
Changes in people’s lives affect their sense of belonging through obstacles and experiences that have involved change in a person’s life. Peter skrzynecki’s experiences expressed in “immigrant chronicles” shows how ones personal, social, emotional and especially cultural perceptions can change through obstacles faced. The idea of belonging is an important and fundamental value in our lives. Belonging most commonly emerges from experience and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding. Sense of belonging is represented in various ways throughout vvv.
We come from different social lives, race, religion, ethnic groups. These back grounds help us to establish ourselves individually in society. Individual differences such as beliefs, race, religion and cultural background make us unique from others and sometimes cause others to form a biased opinion based on characteristics of their lifestyle. Categorizing humans is important for us to understand where
However, diversity recognises that through people have things in common between each other, everyone's is different and unique in many ways. Diversity is about recognising and valuing those differences. For example everyone gender, different cultural backgrounds, different faiths, different family groups and different learning styles, different personalities everyone is different. These differences impact on people needs the service user have the responsibility to value difference as a
People in our world come from all different cultures that we may not always be familiar with. Our experiences and perceptions represent the values and decisions that are made in our life. It is important to get to know the different types of cultures that surround us and how others live their lives. The article, Body Ritual among the Nacirema, relates to many core aspects of sociology, including culture, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, and conflict theory Our culture is the foundation
Identity is a word that describes a sense of ones self. It starts the moment that we are born developing up until adulthood. Many things in the world affect someone’s identity. Family, media and social interactions with other people help shape our identity. Personal identity is very important because it shows who a person is.
Our culture effects a lot in an individuals lives, this in known as our subculture. A person’s subculture identifies a person’s values, beliefs and shared concepts in their group. Then the text talks about the media. Essentially, the media is anything
I believe that Cultural Relativism is acceptable today as there are no universal moral truths. In different cultures certain actions have different meanings and we coming from different cultures find it difficult to comprehend the historical and cultural practices. It is more important to look at the act in context of that particular cultures moral stand on what is right and wrong. Cultural relativism is seen as wrong by many people due to what is considered inhumane by other cultural standards yet it comes down to the point of who can justify what is morally right and wrong and should we try and westernize these cultures which in the end will destroy their cultures belief and years of cultural practice. No one can ultimately set out a list of moral universal truths as they could not possibly take into consideration all practices upheld by different cultures.
Each culture has its own logic. Each culture contains a system of values, beliefs, attitudes and norms that add meaning and significance to the individual and society. As each culture system varies from one to the other, no one culture is better or worse than the next. To some extent, every person is culturally bound. Cultures aid in providing the individual with a sense of identity and belonging.