Understanding About Culture and Family - My Own Understanding About Culture

My Own Understanding about Culture:

In my views culture is a term which shows a direction to a man to spend his life in a specific manner and build a personality according to the society which is accepted by all the aspects of a society.

But on the other hand it is also a culture who tells us about the standards, beliefs and norms of a person, from which culture he is belonged. It is our culture to celebrate the different rituals and traditions in our different functions and festivals.

When I was a child and my mother tells me that it's your duty to respect your elders rather heshe is interconnected with us or not, its part of my culture which my mother transfer me which he get from her parents.

But in the U.S the all game opposite to it, parents become fearful from his Childs because in the U.S Childs have judicial favor.

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Understanding culture is critical for educators because our individual cultural orientation is present in every interaction. Too often, we make assumptions about a person's beliefs or behaviors based on a single cultural indicator, particularly race or ethnicity, when in reality, our cultural identities are a complex weave of all the cultural groups we belong to that influence our values, beliefs, and behaviors. Usually, when people talk about culture, there is an assumption that we are talking about the "big four"- African American, Native American, Asian American, and Hispanic/Latino American, but we ALL are members of cultural groups, and develop cultural identities based on those memberships and influences. Cultural identity development is an ongoing process, as we are exposed to more and different sets of beliefs and values, and may choose to adopt ones that were not part of our original upbringing.

Cultural identity is constructed within the individual, but continually influenced by the interactions among and between people in society. Cultural identity is informed by socio-cultural and historical perspectives that interact with psychological and intrapersonal characteristics so that all are present it.

Reference: http://urbanschools.org/pdf/understanding.culture.LETTER.pdf

Components of Culture:

* Norms:

Norms are all those thinks which is acceptable or unacceptable in the society but it's a matter of common sense which tells a human conscious to treat in what manner.

For example in our society it's our norm which helps us to help older peoples and it understands a proper behavior by the others. And same like this in the university dress shirt and pent is a proper dressing and people consider him a decent and respective personality.

* Mores:

Mores are those things which consider by the society right or wrong. And have a perception about these.

For Example in Pakistan it is consider that to give respect to the woman then the men, as same to obey the traffic rules is think right by the all members of society who are even a little bit educated.

* Laws:

Laws are those which are enforced by the government and political organization of a country.

For Example in our society it is declared by the government of Pakistan everybody pay the tax and contribute in the economy for the welfare of society, and same like this government also declared that the minimum wage rate for monthly basis is 7500.

* Values:

Values are those which are consider by an individual related to him: self image, society level, standard of living and education.

For example in our culture an elite class person cannot live in the low standard life, and an educated man cannot live without busyness.

* Language:

Language is a channel which is used by the members of a society to transfer their culture to the next generation.

For example in the European countries the procedure of conveying a message to others is different than our culture, but there are many languages in sub-cultures around the globe.

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* Artifacts:

Artifacts are the physical things that are found that have particular symbolism for a culture. They may even be endowed with mystical properties.The first products of a company. Prizes won in grueling challenges and so on are all artifacts.

Artifacts can also be more everyday objects, such as the bunch of flowers in reception. They main thing is that they have special meaning, at the very least for the people in the culture. There may well be stories told about them.

* Stories, histories, myths, legends, joke:

Culture is often embedded and transmitted through stories, whether they are deep and obviously intended as learning devices, or whether they appear more subtly, for example in humor and jokes.

A typical story includes a bad guy (often shady and unnamed) and a good guy (often the founder or a prototypical cultural member). There may also be an innocent. The story evolves in a classic