This is mirrored back to us through subjects in school that we study or even the programs we watch on TV. Cultures also include different languages. It is not so much the language that differs, but rather the meaning of phrases within different languages. “A whale of a time,” means to have a great time in Ireland, but in the US we would just say “We had a great time.” If someone were to come to the US and us an Irish phrase, we would not understand what the person meant, just simply because of our differing geographies and different cultures that go along with those geographies. Different languages were created within the city of Babel, speaking religiously, but scientifically, languages were created at the beginning of time because there were people scattered all over Earth, so they created ways of communication that differed. We recognize this because people speak English in the US, but French in France. Perception is how we process what we see by using what we previously have been exposed to. In a place where there isn’t war and someone gets shot, it is perceived as a bad, unlikely, dangerous …show more content…
Memory is something that we use to learn. We use our previous memories to take them and apply them to new situations. We know we have memory because we remember what we did yesterday or how a certain situation ended. Our emotions help us to know what we are feeling and how we perceive situations. We know that if our friend lies to us, we get mad. This emotions show us that what our friends did was wrong. We know how others are feeling by their facial expressions and the emotions that they are putting off. Academic disciplines taught in school teach us how we know things. They teach us history, math, science and art. Our knowledge is created in school, but we also learn how things were created. The knowledge we learn in school is spit back out to us within the workforce of our soon to be jobs. We accept the knowledge that we are taught because that is what adults older and wiser than us tell us. We take that knowledge into the world and find ways of proving it to be true for ourselves. Specific education teaches us about one area of interest. Let’s take religion for example as an area of interest to study. We take what we are being taught and form our own version of