Jenna Mariotti
Assignment Three
Relationship Problems Universal concepts and culturally inflected ideas are two broad statements that pose an innumerous amount of uncertainty when deciphering what each categorizes. As suggested by Ethan Watters in “The Mega-Marketing of Depression of Japan,” culture differences means conceptual differences. Where as in “Immune to Reality” by Daniel Gilbert and Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” a person’s knowledge of the world is generated through language. Whether it be from the process conclusions are reached, the biological nature of language, or the method in which feelings are deduced, the relationship between universal concepts and culturally inflected ideas is interdependent; …show more content…
When an idea is proposed, the brain deploys a stratagem to reach a conclusion by interpreting the stimuli that has been received, and then, an action occurs accordingly. If this stimulus were to be an unpleasant one, the psychological immune system, as proposed by Gilbert, would be put to work, “when experiences make us feel sufficiently unhappy, the psychological immune system cooks facts and shifts blame in order to offer us a more positive view” (Gilbert 136). As negativity encompasses a situation, the psychological immune system will counteract the negativity to produce a prosperous result. Negativity can be defined universally, but it is the culture that determines what actions are erosive. The negative actions in one culture can potentially be eulogized in a different culture. As well as negativity, happiness is defined throughout a culture, not worldwide. This idea of unhappiness is more culturally understood, than universally determined; this concept is demonstrated in “The Mega-Marketing of Depression of Japan,” where “explanatory models create the culturally expected experience of the disease in the mind of the sufferer” (Watters 518). Because of this, the process in which conclusions are reached depends on culture as well as universal concepts. The universal concept would be the idea of the psychological immune system cooking facts …show more content…
Because language is composed of symbols, it is interpretative in description. According to Stout, “regular memories are formed through adequate hippocampal and cortical input, are integrated as comprehensible wholes, and are subject to meaning-modification…through language” (Stout 421-22). The system in which memories are fashioned is a universal adaptation, but the idea of meaning modification is where the cultural bias can play a role. Culturally as seen in, “The Mega-Marketing Of Depression In Japan”, it is difficult to translate words, which are composed of symbols that give off the uniform ambiance in every culture. The linguistic correspondence between different cultures can be affected by the universal quality of language. The diversity that comes with different cultures enforces the idea that universally, no two cultures will be the same. Self-awareness of ones culture is the first step in identifying what emanates from the cultural aspect of the world, and what arises from the universal aspects. When trying to conceive a word that has the same denotation of the westernized meaning of the word, “depression,” it is exceptionally challenging. The universality of words can be culturally affected. But the general ideas can be translated, even though the interpretation is going to be up to the culturally
Assignment Three
Relationship Problems Universal concepts and culturally inflected ideas are two broad statements that pose an innumerous amount of uncertainty when deciphering what each categorizes. As suggested by Ethan Watters in “The Mega-Marketing of Depression of Japan,” culture differences means conceptual differences. Where as in “Immune to Reality” by Daniel Gilbert and Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” a person’s knowledge of the world is generated through language. Whether it be from the process conclusions are reached, the biological nature of language, or the method in which feelings are deduced, the relationship between universal concepts and culturally inflected ideas is interdependent; …show more content…
When an idea is proposed, the brain deploys a stratagem to reach a conclusion by interpreting the stimuli that has been received, and then, an action occurs accordingly. If this stimulus were to be an unpleasant one, the psychological immune system, as proposed by Gilbert, would be put to work, “when experiences make us feel sufficiently unhappy, the psychological immune system cooks facts and shifts blame in order to offer us a more positive view” (Gilbert 136). As negativity encompasses a situation, the psychological immune system will counteract the negativity to produce a prosperous result. Negativity can be defined universally, but it is the culture that determines what actions are erosive. The negative actions in one culture can potentially be eulogized in a different culture. As well as negativity, happiness is defined throughout a culture, not worldwide. This idea of unhappiness is more culturally understood, than universally determined; this concept is demonstrated in “The Mega-Marketing of Depression of Japan,” where “explanatory models create the culturally expected experience of the disease in the mind of the sufferer” (Watters 518). Because of this, the process in which conclusions are reached depends on culture as well as universal concepts. The universal concept would be the idea of the psychological immune system cooking facts …show more content…
Because language is composed of symbols, it is interpretative in description. According to Stout, “regular memories are formed through adequate hippocampal and cortical input, are integrated as comprehensible wholes, and are subject to meaning-modification…through language” (Stout 421-22). The system in which memories are fashioned is a universal adaptation, but the idea of meaning modification is where the cultural bias can play a role. Culturally as seen in, “The Mega-Marketing Of Depression In Japan”, it is difficult to translate words, which are composed of symbols that give off the uniform ambiance in every culture. The linguistic correspondence between different cultures can be affected by the universal quality of language. The diversity that comes with different cultures enforces the idea that universally, no two cultures will be the same. Self-awareness of ones culture is the first step in identifying what emanates from the cultural aspect of the world, and what arises from the universal aspects. When trying to conceive a word that has the same denotation of the westernized meaning of the word, “depression,” it is exceptionally challenging. The universality of words can be culturally affected. But the general ideas can be translated, even though the interpretation is going to be up to the culturally