A human’s ability to adjust to environmental stimuli is the important biological process that is necessary to live. These adjustments are based entirely on one’s surroundings and how he or she has previously dealt with adjustments. Surroundings are not only environmental, such as the air, water, or a natural disaster, but can also be advertisements or stores. Humans are able to take in their surroundings and make a logical decision that will allow them to act in the proper way to their specific environment. However, if a person’s surroundings are posed, he or she will respond in a way that is logical for that environment. In Michael Moss’ “The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food”, the food consumers’ surroundings are altered in order to make
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Culture brings together large groups of people due to a collective reaction to surroundings. These similar surroundings bring people together and when these surroundings become clouded, an entire culture can shift to accept them. Blind culture brings together all blind people due to the similarities they possess. These similarities go much deeper than just their lack of site, they go to the similar experiences they share due to their blindness and even the way their surroundings affect the way they interpret their world. Their culture is centered in the way blind people interact with the world and these interactions are heavily based on their surroundings. Braille exemplifies this. When a person is exposed to a tactile language, they are able to adjust to this surrounding and convert a physical language into imagery. Braille notes “are visual images, not tactile” (Sacks 336). Culture can be fluid due to the environments that it is centered in. In the case of blind culture, they adjust due to their language no longer being auditory but instead tactile. This can also be seen in Japanese culture where their entire culture was shifted in order to accommodate the addition of new pharmaceuticals. The Japanese culture is based on hard work and pride. Depression is often viewed in Japan as one of the severest mental illnesses because it prevents an individual from working efficiently. GlaxoSmithKline was able to shift this mentality through the use of advertisement. This advertisement “presents depression as ‘intentionally ambiguous and ill-defined, applicable to the widest possible population” (Watters 525). These two cultures shifted the way they perceived the world due to their surroundings being shifted. Surroundings not only affect the individual, but also entire
Culture brings together large groups of people due to a collective reaction to surroundings. These similar surroundings bring people together and when these surroundings become clouded, an entire culture can shift to accept them. Blind culture brings together all blind people due to the similarities they possess. These similarities go much deeper than just their lack of site, they go to the similar experiences they share due to their blindness and even the way their surroundings affect the way they interpret their world. Their culture is centered in the way blind people interact with the world and these interactions are heavily based on their surroundings. Braille exemplifies this. When a person is exposed to a tactile language, they are able to adjust to this surrounding and convert a physical language into imagery. Braille notes “are visual images, not tactile” (Sacks 336). Culture can be fluid due to the environments that it is centered in. In the case of blind culture, they adjust due to their language no longer being auditory but instead tactile. This can also be seen in Japanese culture where their entire culture was shifted in order to accommodate the addition of new pharmaceuticals. The Japanese culture is based on hard work and pride. Depression is often viewed in Japan as one of the severest mental illnesses because it prevents an individual from working efficiently. GlaxoSmithKline was able to shift this mentality through the use of advertisement. This advertisement “presents depression as ‘intentionally ambiguous and ill-defined, applicable to the widest possible population” (Watters 525). These two cultures shifted the way they perceived the world due to their surroundings being shifted. Surroundings not only affect the individual, but also entire