This is how anthropology affects the world we live in. After all, it’s easier to help others, and ourselves, when we first have an encompassing understanding. This leads to the many practical applications that anthropology has in our daily lives. One of these being growing intellectually. This in part is resulted because you’re forced to question some of the basic assumptions that most people take advantage of their entire life. What makes a specific person beautiful? What is the meaning of marriage? Is gender a social or biological composure? An additional way that anthropology is applied to our daily lives is that one considers more critically their identity and the elements that have molded them. The social expectations, religious background, human relationships, cultural norms, and interactions with technology and ideas have helped shaped you to be who you are. Applied anthropology on this way allows one to learn a lot about oneself on a personal level. Furthermore, another way anthropology can be applied to our day-to-day lives is the exercise of trying to understand and appreciate different cultures that we interact with on a daily basis. Even if we do not necessarily adopt other cultural norms, you achieve a lowered level of subjectivity. You are less likely to make fake judgements of others, you incline more to understand than blame or hate. Through the lens of anthropology, you are now able to see the good, and less good, in the concepts and practices of
This is how anthropology affects the world we live in. After all, it’s easier to help others, and ourselves, when we first have an encompassing understanding. This leads to the many practical applications that anthropology has in our daily lives. One of these being growing intellectually. This in part is resulted because you’re forced to question some of the basic assumptions that most people take advantage of their entire life. What makes a specific person beautiful? What is the meaning of marriage? Is gender a social or biological composure? An additional way that anthropology is applied to our daily lives is that one considers more critically their identity and the elements that have molded them. The social expectations, religious background, human relationships, cultural norms, and interactions with technology and ideas have helped shaped you to be who you are. Applied anthropology on this way allows one to learn a lot about oneself on a personal level. Furthermore, another way anthropology can be applied to our day-to-day lives is the exercise of trying to understand and appreciate different cultures that we interact with on a daily basis. Even if we do not necessarily adopt other cultural norms, you achieve a lowered level of subjectivity. You are less likely to make fake judgements of others, you incline more to understand than blame or hate. Through the lens of anthropology, you are now able to see the good, and less good, in the concepts and practices of