I will be doing this reaction paper on pairing number two. The first video was on culture and personality while the second video was called Alejandro Mamani: A case study in culture and personality. Following the two videos, I wasn’t certain how to compare or contrast the two videos. Subsequent to our class discussions, I was able to wrap my mind around how they compare to one another. For instance, comprehending that both culture and personality are abstract was a nice starting point for me to understand this topic. I found it interesting in “Alejandro Mamani: A case study in culture and personality”, they ended the movie with a question, asking“did Alejandro’s culture give him a way out?” Furthermore, it was amusing how his display of deviance
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For instance, in the first video culture and anthropology, the author stated our personality is shaped in early childhood by observation. Furthermore, while watching Alejandro Mamani: A case study in culture and personality, Alejandro’s temperament toward the evil spirits was something he had learned from the generation before him, who as he mentioned also went to the cliffs. In Umanitoba’s online book of anthropology, the author implies that “The replacement of genetic transmission of behavior by learning in the course of human evolution has had a clear effect on our biological heritage. We adapt to our environment through cultural strategies rather than genetic predispositions. Accordingly, human groups have spread to every part of the world and survived drastic differences in climate and diet without dramatic anatomical changes. The result has been that physical differences among peoples, which have developed over millions of years in thousands of diverse ecosystems, are remarkably superficial. Cultural differences, however, are profound and limitless and form a fascinating subject matter for anthropological inquiry.” This is a beautiful statement that corresponds with the videos from class …show more content…
For example, in Alejandro’s case, he displayed a personality of what I would call a depressed man, and his culture in part shaped this personality because his ancestors before him displayed the same traits before they went to the cliffs. Another illustration of this was the little boy dancer in video one, we can’t separate the dancer from the dance, we can’t separate what is personality and what is culture. Much of the time culture shapes our personality to fit what is socially acceptable. But sometimes our personality may shape the people around us, such as the effects Alejandro had on his family while the evil spirits were attacking
For instance, in the first video culture and anthropology, the author stated our personality is shaped in early childhood by observation. Furthermore, while watching Alejandro Mamani: A case study in culture and personality, Alejandro’s temperament toward the evil spirits was something he had learned from the generation before him, who as he mentioned also went to the cliffs. In Umanitoba’s online book of anthropology, the author implies that “The replacement of genetic transmission of behavior by learning in the course of human evolution has had a clear effect on our biological heritage. We adapt to our environment through cultural strategies rather than genetic predispositions. Accordingly, human groups have spread to every part of the world and survived drastic differences in climate and diet without dramatic anatomical changes. The result has been that physical differences among peoples, which have developed over millions of years in thousands of diverse ecosystems, are remarkably superficial. Cultural differences, however, are profound and limitless and form a fascinating subject matter for anthropological inquiry.” This is a beautiful statement that corresponds with the videos from class …show more content…
For example, in Alejandro’s case, he displayed a personality of what I would call a depressed man, and his culture in part shaped this personality because his ancestors before him displayed the same traits before they went to the cliffs. Another illustration of this was the little boy dancer in video one, we can’t separate the dancer from the dance, we can’t separate what is personality and what is culture. Much of the time culture shapes our personality to fit what is socially acceptable. But sometimes our personality may shape the people around us, such as the effects Alejandro had on his family while the evil spirits were attacking