One of the readings assigned was “Culture and the definition of mental illness” by Arthur Kleinman. In this reading he talks about the culture-bound syndrome, or folk illness. Culture-bound syndrome is a disease or illness that is only recognized within a specific area or culture. I have a close friend of mine who is in the military was stationed in Japan for over two years. When he was home he talked to me about all the things that he experienced and specifically talked about a family he got close to over the course of his time.…
Introduction: Today’s Internet marketing strategy thrives on cultural customization. Those of whom are excellent marketers know how to effective market their goods or services, which is done by identifying the needs of the consumer and satisfying consumer wants. According to Weston (2012), it is a well-known fact that many marketers and business do not understand the importance of ‘researching the process of perception’ in not only foreign countries, but cultures as well! The true question how from a marketer’s perspective can one organize, cultivate, mature and interpret meaningless information to one’s culture to create value to another’s culture? The concept of marketing is built on the fundamental principal of supply and demand, which is the direct relation with identifying consumer’s wants and supplying their demands, after all, consumer needs are a reflection of the culture, society, and…
Culture is constantly changing all around us. Culture adjustment is what drives us to become better. It is what propels us as societies to reach new heights and achieve our full social potential within a group. Although people tend to favor conservatism with regards to cultural traditions, most societies undergo some gradual changes in order to thrive and progress. Without realization, most people live their whole life unaware of the differences in their traditions and practices and often attribute those differences to a natural process while they believe the original action or belief wasn’t modified.…
America is Fat Every time a set of commercials come on, more than likely one of them has to do with weight loss. When scrolling down a website, a weight loss ad will magically appear. When walking through Walmart, a weight loss supplements poster will be at the end of the aisle. Everywhere Americans look there is a weight loss ad. The reason for this is because obesity in America is becoming an epidemic.…
In the article, Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind, the reader is presented with an interesting perspective on human cognition. Joe Henrich, an anthropology graduate, traveled to Peru, Tanzania, Indonesia, and other places to study small scale societies’ behavioral instincts on fairness. He wanted to compare his findings to that of Western culture to see if all cultures universally share the same perspective on what is fair. Instead of using traditional ethnography techniques, Henrich decided to use an unorthodox approach, which was using a statistical experiment, the ultimatum game. Individuals were given one hundred dollars and asked to give some of it out to another.…
In these next few paragraphs, I will expose the problems with cultural relativism; namely, through the use of the law of non-contradiction. Cultural relativism is an ethical theory that states “correct moral standards are relative to cultures or societies …” (Shafer-Landau 293). For example, the Inuit people believed that infanticide was morally acceptable. In contrast, most of the world believes that infanticide is highly immoral and never acceptable.…
“There can be little doubt that the age we are living through is one of tremendous economic and social transformation” (Florida, 2005, p.3). Looking back on history, the ways in which our society has developed and transformed is clear and evident. Through the actions of industrialization and globalization our society gained the ability to achieve goals that it could not in the past. Although it is crucial to obtain knowledge about society’s history, it’s also important to understand the ways in which our society functions today. Our society today thrives off of a capitalistic system.…
Abstract This paper researches the culture-bound syndrome called running amok. First, the paper seeks to break down the definition of running amok, the cause, and the areas affected. The above is done by using published articles and textbooks to research the culture-bound syndrome. Running amok goes by a few different names but is ultimately referenced back to the term used in this paper, and is described as, “a disorder found in Malaysia, the Philippines, Java, and some parts of Africa, jump around violently, yell loudly, grab knives or other weapons, and attack any people and objects they encounter” (Comer, 2010).…
The cultural monster embodies pleasures that are usually confined within an individual due to societal standards. However, through these monsters, individual desires are revealed, intensified, and acted upon. In the book “Interview with a Vampire”, Lestat constantly acts to satisfy the desire of his sexual appetite. He does not struggle with performing immoral activities, such as killing innocent human beings, so long as he satisfies his need for blood. He also does not care what Louis, society, or anyone else thinks about the way he is acting and thus continues to act based on his impulses.…
A Synthesis of the Problem of Cultural Appropriation To this day, many Americans will consider racial slurs a form of disrespect toward people of their respective ethnicities. In contrast, one will often disregard the preceding proposition when it comes to general use of the culture of a specific ethnicity that he does not belong to. Furthermore, this proposition will receive a similar degree of neglect when it comes to the misuse of a culture in sports. Although many possibilities come to light in favor of the justification of the use of Native American culture in sports, misapplication of a concept can bring many negative implications to light.…
Now, this is where the Hmong culture and western medicine collide. “ Dan had no way of knowing that Foua and Nao Kao had already diagnosed their daughters’ problem as the illness where the spirit catches you and fall down. Foua and Nao Kao had no way of knowing that Dan had diagnosed it as epilepsy, the most common of all neurological disorders. Each had accurately noted the same symptoms, but Dan would have been surprised to hear that they were caused by loss soul, and Lia’s parents would have been surprised to hear they were caused by an electrochemical storm inside their daughter's’ head that been stirred up by the misfiring of the aberrant brain cells” (Fadiman,…
The major differences between the two types of context cultural conflicts is the realm in which they exist. High Context Cultural conflict place a heavy significance on the group. If one is a deviant it is because they did not meet the group’s expectations, not personal expectations set by the superior. Noting, that there is a cultural standard carried out by the group and sustained by the group. The Low Context Culture conflict exists because the superior or higher power does not approve of the deviant’s behavior based on individual ranks.…
Cross-cultural interaction had extreme impacts on the future use of travel networks of the world, as well as future global interactions and popular culture. The greatest causes of cross-cultural interaction from 1000 to 1500 CE were religious and diplomatic pursuits, the emergence of growing commercial centers, and nomadic invasions. The impacts of the interactions included events with the environment including the Bubonic plague, which caused a lesser population, the moving of humans in search of opportunity, and the spread of crops. Economic and social impacts included the Renaissance, conscripted labor, and centralized structure in the Ming dynasty.…
“Different cultures have different moral codes”, James Rachels discusses in his article Why Morality Is Not Relative? (160). Moral codes differ from culture to culture and each culture tends to have their own individual standards. Cultural relativism is said to be “moral rules differ from society to society” (18). Cultural relativism can be looked at as a theory based on nature of morality. Each culture has their own moral codes, typically created by their ancestors.…
Cultural deprivation is a major theory in understanding underachievement. This is the theory working class culture is different from the other classes and this puts working class children at a disadvantage in many areas. For example, working class culture does not adequately prepare their children for academic success and so it holds back educational achievement. This can be shown by a number of pieces of research, an example is by Douglas (1964) who did a longitudinal study, a study of a long period of time, of a large group of children born in 1948 and followed them into their careers.…