Cultural Traditions
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QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
1. An often overlooked first step for developing an understanding of another culture is having knowledge and respect for one’s own cultural traditions. Do you know the origins of the worldview commonly held by most people in your community? How do you think it developed over time and what makes it so accepted or popular in your group today?
2. Although all cultures across the world display some degree of ethnocentrism, some are more ethnocentric than others. In what ways is your own society ethnocentric? Considering today’s globalization (as described in Chapter 1), do you think ethnocentrism poses more of a problem than in the past?
3. Like everyone else in the world, you are meeting daily challenges of survival through your culture. And since you are made “fully human” by your own culture, how do you express your individual identity in your community? What do your hairstyle, clothes shoes, jewelry, and so on communicate about who you are?
4. Many large modern societies are pluralistic. Are you familiar with any subcultures in your own society? Could you make friends with or even marry someone from another subculture? What kind of problems would you be likely to encounter?
5. The barrel model offers you a simple framework to imagine what a culture looks like from an analytical point of view. How would you apply that model to your own community?
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