Culture describes a people’s way of life. Through the whole of attitudes, ethics, ambitions, and practices shared by individuals in a society, people create a community that acts as one. Cultures reflect the moral and ethical beliefs and standards that describe how people should behave and interact with others. Nonetheless, problems occur in communities when a clash of cultures transpires, or when individuals in close contact exhibit varied beliefs. In any community, a multitude of cultures exist within it. When settlers first came to the Americas from Europe, a conflict occurred between the culture that already existed, that of the Natives, and the culture that the settlers wanted to introduce. As in this example, the attempt for transculturation does not usually succeed, and complications arise.
By dissecting the people, places, and actions taken of a variety of cultures, one deciphers how these attributes affect people’s behaviors. From the collision of modernization and traditional Irani beliefs, the clash …show more content…
Heated debates arise on multiple occasions between just two people. Those who hold strong to their beliefs often find themselves in arguments, as their values conflict with others’. The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns shows this difficulty through protagonist Mariam and her husband, Rasheed. Their conflicting beliefs made it difficult to live together; Mariam’s gentle nature clashed with Rasheed’s harsh and sometimes violent ways. For example, Rasheed’s desire to marry Laila compromises Mariam 's own ethics. Rasheed defends his proposition telling her “it’s a common thing” and that his “friends have two, three, four wives,” then goes even further to say that Mariam’s “own father had three” (Hosseini 215). Mariam feels disrespected, despite the commonality in the society’s culture to have multiple
By dissecting the people, places, and actions taken of a variety of cultures, one deciphers how these attributes affect people’s behaviors. From the collision of modernization and traditional Irani beliefs, the clash …show more content…
Heated debates arise on multiple occasions between just two people. Those who hold strong to their beliefs often find themselves in arguments, as their values conflict with others’. The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns shows this difficulty through protagonist Mariam and her husband, Rasheed. Their conflicting beliefs made it difficult to live together; Mariam’s gentle nature clashed with Rasheed’s harsh and sometimes violent ways. For example, Rasheed’s desire to marry Laila compromises Mariam 's own ethics. Rasheed defends his proposition telling her “it’s a common thing” and that his “friends have two, three, four wives,” then goes even further to say that Mariam’s “own father had three” (Hosseini 215). Mariam feels disrespected, despite the commonality in the society’s culture to have multiple