Essay On Cultural Differences In America

The first thing I learned from reading this chapter is that even responding to the smallest word or phrase, people associate so many different kinds of biases on just that one word. I feel like to me it resembles a photo that has been photoshopped to look pristine. Everyone wants to imagine themselves in the best light, and most people want to believe that they hold no prejudices and are open all forms of people with no judgement. However, what they fail to realize is that the culture that they grew up in or are currently surrounded by allows their beliefs to correspond with those around them, and all the biases get fused into a cultural or societal norm. To me association means linking terms or beliefs together, and I think that in a society that is bound to happen because people have the desire to fit into their surroundings. This was not necessarily a new term for me, but thinking about it in this social context was a new way of noticing where all …show more content…
Here in America it is very easy to pick out and choose the different groups that exist amongst the bigger American group. This is most likely because America is seen as a place where various groups can go in order for both better opportunities and understanding the concept of freedom. It is funny how freedom is one of the reasons that here we see so many differences in groups that appear. I think the concept of many smaller groups in a larger group, in correspondence to countries and societies also shows that there are biases and assumptions being made by those very people that choose to associate more in their smaller groups, rather than acting as a member or the larger group they chose to participate in first. This was a new concept for me because I never actually thought about a differentiation in groups amongst a larger group, and it was interesting to me how all those other factors came into