Reflection:
Many of Chaahat’s observations and actions throughout her college experience in the United States of America reflect on multiple theories encountered in psychology and culture. Cultural Attribution Fallacies
There was a definite presence of mistaken interpretations in the cross-cultural comparison throughout the interviewee’s experience. On the one hand, experiencing it , and on the other, taking part in it. Cultural attribution fallacies occur when one infers that something cultural produced the differences they observed, despite the fact that they may not be empirically justified in doing so because they did not actually measure those cultural factors. Which can be clearly represented in the way Chaahat’s first American acquaintances …show more content…
People with an internal locus of control see their behavior and relationships with bothers as dependent on their own behavior. Whereas those with an external locus of control see their behavior and relationships as contingent on forces outside themselves and beyond their control. Being from a culture where people are mostly external to themselves allowed Chaahat to notice how internal American individuals are. For example the sense of connectedness and cooperativeness, she felt growing up in her culture, where not only her family but also her friends and community where the individual’s self is based on a principle of the fundamental connectedness among others. As opposed to what she found here, a more independent Construal of Self, where individuals believe and practice a sense of self that views the self as a bounded entity, clearly separated from relevant others. The latter is mostly shown in the observation of people’s tendencies to overanalyze, and over self-sympathize in order to stand out by always needing to have a strong opinion regarding everything. Not to mention her fail to find the sense of connectedness with Americans, and instead being able to achieve that same feeling with other international students from a same cultural background as she. And finally, finding these qualities in the smallest
Many of Chaahat’s observations and actions throughout her college experience in the United States of America reflect on multiple theories encountered in psychology and culture. Cultural Attribution Fallacies
There was a definite presence of mistaken interpretations in the cross-cultural comparison throughout the interviewee’s experience. On the one hand, experiencing it , and on the other, taking part in it. Cultural attribution fallacies occur when one infers that something cultural produced the differences they observed, despite the fact that they may not be empirically justified in doing so because they did not actually measure those cultural factors. Which can be clearly represented in the way Chaahat’s first American acquaintances …show more content…
People with an internal locus of control see their behavior and relationships with bothers as dependent on their own behavior. Whereas those with an external locus of control see their behavior and relationships as contingent on forces outside themselves and beyond their control. Being from a culture where people are mostly external to themselves allowed Chaahat to notice how internal American individuals are. For example the sense of connectedness and cooperativeness, she felt growing up in her culture, where not only her family but also her friends and community where the individual’s self is based on a principle of the fundamental connectedness among others. As opposed to what she found here, a more independent Construal of Self, where individuals believe and practice a sense of self that views the self as a bounded entity, clearly separated from relevant others. The latter is mostly shown in the observation of people’s tendencies to overanalyze, and over self-sympathize in order to stand out by always needing to have a strong opinion regarding everything. Not to mention her fail to find the sense of connectedness with Americans, and instead being able to achieve that same feeling with other international students from a same cultural background as she. And finally, finding these qualities in the smallest