Culture and the Multicultural
Essay
How do cultures differ? The
following is a list of some of the
ways. Think of other differences.
Advertising
Attitudes toward change
Attitudes toward other cultures
Attitudes toward the environment
Attitudes toward war and peace
Children’s view of parents
Clothes/dress codes
Crime
Conversation styles
Dating customs
Death and mourning
Discipline of children
Ecology/environment
Economic system/money
Educational system
Education of women
Family/extended family
Foods
Freedom of expression
Friends
Generation Gap
Government
Greetings
Happiness
Holiday celebrations
Humor
Importance of possessions
Individual liberty
Law
Leisure activities
Manners
Military
Parents’ view of children
Patriotism
Personal space/touching
Politics
Prejudices
Religious beliefs
Roles of children
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Roles of males and females
Self-discipline
Shelters/homes
Social system
Success
Transportation
Values
View of parenthood
Ethnocentrism—belief in the
superiority of one’s own ethnic group.
Example: The name used by the
Eskimos for themselves is Inupik
which means “real people.” What
implication does this definition have
for the rest of us?
July, 2007
Prepared by Pat Seawright