Culture
•How do you define
a person?
EQ
• Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of
people, defined by everything from language, religion,
cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
• Today, in the United States as in other countries
populated largely by immigrants, the culture is influenced
by the many groups of people that now make up the
country.
• What are the different ways in which culture can be
different?
• What are the positives and negatives to this idea?
What is Culture?
What Defines a
Person?
• Categorizes humans by heredity, physical characteristics,
geographic ancestry
• Examples
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White
Black
Asian
Pacific Islander
• It’s what you bubble in on a form
Race
• A group of people whose members identify with each
other through a common heritage often consisting of a
common ideology that stresses common ancestry
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African American
Kurd
Arab
French
• Not everyone has an ethnicity they identify with,
especially in diverse countries
Ethnicity
• A country of allegiance or national identity
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American
Chinese
Colombian
French
• This can be the same as your ethnicity
• “If there is a war, who would you fight for?”
Nationality
• A group of people who adhere to the same religious
beliefs
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Jews
Sikhs
Buddhists
Mormons
• Within world religions there are specific divisions
• Some ethnicities have specific religious groups within
them, although some are all one religion
• Some religious groups are tribal or very specific
Religious Group
Music
Visual Arts
Surface Culture (observable)
Games/Sports
Architecture
Dress
Language
Greetings
Dancing
Food
Celebrations
Work ethic
Humor
Values
Holidays
Social
Deep Culture (not observable)
structures
Body Language
Cultural Iceberg
Gender Roles
Religious Child Raising
Beliefs
Drama/Storytelling
Courtship & Marriage
Emotions
Notions of Modesty