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1. Title is your Group Members' Names

2. Compile the information from the 3 articles and summarize the main ideas into one 6-8 sentence paragraph.

3. Find 4-6 pictures that help visually represent the main ideas that the articles were trying to get across to the reader.

4. What information was... new? interesting? confusing? helpful? left out?

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2. Culture and sub culture is about how culture is very complex and how you're not born with culture but learn it. To understand culture you have to look past stereotypes and have an open mind. Also, genetic mutations don't take a couple of year but several thousands of years to make a change. Like people started drinking milk straight from the cow but they later realized that I was hurting them more then helping.
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4. What I found interesting was so many people have different culture across the world.

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Alan, Aidan, Hassan (Please not that for some reason, we were unable to put more than one photo on the post.)

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Alan, Aidan, Hassan (Please not that for some reason, we were unable to put more than one photo on the post.)

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Human culture is something that we are not born with, yet it has shaped human evolution. Culture is a very vast and complex subject, but it is extremely important to learn about culture and the way it affects us. It is able to create new "Normals" in society, wether it be of behavior or looks, and because of this people with acceptable or desirable traits were more accepted. This influences evolution, because there would be more genes with good traits being passed down than bad. Culture can also affect our history, as it has caused wars, confusion, and debate. To see culture today, look at how different people from different countries behave- there are likely to be differences in behavior between them, because they grew up in different environments. Even things such as not walking around naked and using money to buy things are part of culture, and therefore culture is a very important topic.

Some interesting information is that humans were not naturally able to drink milk. A genetic mutation caused some humans to be able to drink milk. Globally, lactose intolerance was normal, but milk-drinkers quickly became more popular. Also, an American spy in Germany was once caught based off of the way he held his fork and knife.

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2. The first article was about how we as humans like to predict how others will behave based on where they are from and their culture. Many people start to ask "What culture does this person come from?" when we should really be asking ourselves, "How can I prepare myself before entering a new culture?" . The second article is about how genes have been changed by evolution and they have adapted to many changes of rapid evolution. As people have progressed, our genes have as well and they will continue to grow to best suit our busy life which leads us into the last article. Culture makes what up of what countries are meaning it depicts on what a countries standards are. Meaning how in America we like fast results however in Japan it is more of slower results to get better reads, that's an example of how culture depicts on how the society acts and what their morals are.
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4. Although we knew most of the information about how evolution has changed genes, the most surprising fact was that culture and people have progressed the evolutionary process so much that genes have created many small differences just to keep up with our evolution. The one part that confused me was the fact that some genes don't take much time to evolve but some can take hundreds of years to evolve.

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.In the first article it is about how life around the world is diffrent but its more then just the cultur

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2.Cultural Differences are more complicated than what country you're from-We judge each other just because of how we look and what our customs are. Don't criticize others for their customs and looks because they have a different culture surrounding them. Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force-Genetics evolved to help/hurt the human race with the reproduction and continuation of human life. For example, people from Siberia that were East Asian and Native American gained the genetic of long hair over a long period of time. Scientists believe it was to survive cold climates and/or attraction. Culture and subculture-Culture has a different effect on different people. Certain countries rely on one certain gender more than the other because of their culture. For example, Japan mainly relies on the men in their country while the Netherlands relies on the women in their country.

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2. Culture is essentially the norm or the types of ideals held by the members of a culture. In a general sense, every culture in every country has a significant personality, with its own values, do's, don'ts, and quirks. There are very few general expressions around the entire world due to the vast numbers of different cultures that would have to miraculously come to the same conclusion. No two cultures are going to have the exact same values, and not even inside of that culture, people are separated into groups. America may have a vast amount of people all of which have completely different ideas, but at its core it is a culture focused on individuality. However, another country in the world may be the exact opposite.

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4. I find it fascinating that there  is such a large gap between cultures of different countries, there are some things that I had never thought of as rude that are rude in other cultures. To think that there were so many differences from state to state, its amazing that every point of civilization have found different meanings for the things that we all had the idea of.

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2. The biggest article is talking about stuff like morality and immorality, the immorality act, and Hofstede's dimensions.

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Carina Pemberton, Benjamin Brown, Alex Mcdowell

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Carina Pemberton, Benjamin Brown, Alex Mcdowell

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Devin Bell, Hannah Leach, Baelii Pilsworth, Angel Figueira

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Devin Bell, Hannah Leach, Baelii Pilsworth, Angel Figueira

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Our articles were about cultural differences and what they are, stereotypes, and gender roles. Cultural differences are differences between one person and another person based on where they both came from. For example, somebody from an Asian culture or subculture may act differently than someone from the United States. That being said, however, some people will not act like how their culture suggests, or they will not follow stereotypes. A representation of that would be a Canadian who wasn't always very nice, or a German who isn't as stern as people might think.

The gender role aspect of the articles we read talked about how some countries, civilizations, and cultures have rules and/or expectations for different genders. Some countries are more masculine, while others can be more feminine. A great example of gender roles in a civilization would be a Native American tribe. Men in the tribe would typically be the hunters, the ones who both protected the others and brought food for them. The females were normally gatherers, people who gathered various herbs or berries for the tribe.

Overall, the information given to us was helpful and interesting, as well as possibly useful in real life and in various situations with meeting foreign people.

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1. Hayden Sherman, Christina Hale, Dustin DeWeese

2. Culture is different and intriguing anywhere you go, but it’s not always the same. This is one of the key principles we have learned throughout the articles we have studied, along with many others that you wouldn’t necessarily think of. One theme we noticed throughout them all were stereotypes, even within “the same culture” there can be many differences depending on different factors such as religion and beliefs within the same culture. It is rude to assume that everybody is the same just because they live in the same area, there are also many differences between how you present things, the language and overall interaction with each other. Although not the most specific, cultures fall under different categories such as masculinity vs femininity, uncertainty avoidance and individualism vs collectivism. All in all, we must respect and treat culture as something to not be judged or taken lightly, just because someone looks or doesn’t look like us doesn’t mean that we should treat them any differently, but we should be careful not to offend them. Culture is something that you are “built into” it isn’t something that you are born with, it’s something you are taught.

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4. All of the information in the article was intriguing, and mostly new to all of us, but we were familiar and very unfamiliar with different parts of the articles. Some things that surprised us were how language is very different in different cultures, and it's not just a direct translation like we usually think it is. Some cultures are very specific and there is a word for everything, in others they rely on body language as much as they do language, and other places like the U.S. are in the middle. Some information that was left out that would have been helpful were thing like how music, clothing, food, ext. and how and why they differ among cultures.

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Carina Pemberton, Benjamin Brown, Alex Mcdowell

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Carina Pemberton, Benjamin Brown, Alex Mcdowell

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Culture affects humans in a variety of fundamental areas. It affects the way we work, what and how we eat, what we value, and in recent studies, how we evolve.

By 2010, experts acquired an assortment of statistical data that points to an interesting hypothesis -- that the controlled, consistent environment of culture has given humanity the ability to shape its own evolution. However, this is not a new idea in concept, being originally argued by scientists, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson, with their example of the culture surrounding lactose tolerance in Northern Europe. And even though it was ignored in their time, this hypothesis has proven itself correct. “The descendants of an ancient cattle-rearing culture that emerged in the region some 6,000 years ago -- the gene is kept switched on in adulthood. Drinking raw milk has caused an evolutionary change in the human genome.” (Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force; paragraph 12.) Evolution within a species typically relies on a few factors: conventional pressure and the environment and climate of the population. Culture, likewise, has also been shown to also have a factor in this process. As a society becomes consistent in their actions and beliefs, their genetic structure adapts to become efficient in the desired lifestyle. “They could have changed in response to the social transition between as people moved from small hunter-gatherer groups to...towns inhabited by several thousand.” (Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force; paragraph 15) For example, the scanning of the genome of a human in a settled society was shown to have a smaller, skeletal structure, to make accommodations for a larger brain size. Diet could also easily affect a culture’s genetics. Asia, which is focused on carbs and vegetables will have citizens with a different appearance and proficiencies (culinary intellectualism, with enough food to accommodate the culture) than in Alaska, where meats are widely important (making it necessary for attributes such as enlarged bone structure and inherent strength.) Despite this evidence, these are simply logical conclusions drawn by statistical trends-- it’s not definitive. But one must ask-- what exactly makes a culture of this nature? There are many rules and requirements to be considered culture. For example, culture must be comprehensive, culture is learned rather than being something you’re born with, culture is manifested within boundaries of acceptable behavior, and failure to behave within the prescribed norms may lead to sanctions. Conscious awareness of cultural standards is limited, and cultures fall somewhere on a continuum between static and dynamic depending on how quickly they accept change. One might struggle understanding countries with different rules and expectations than their own. “One may violate the cultural norms of another country without being informed of this, and people from different cultures may feel uncomfortable in each other’s presence…” (Culture and Subculture; paragraph 7) Culture is an important aspect of life in general. It can be problematic when you are unfamiliar with the customs and beliefs of the people around you. It is necessary to prepare before you decide to go somewhere. People might act in ways unaccustomed to you, so it would be helpful to learn about their culture and viewpoints. Even if you can’t predict their moment-to-moment actions, you may be able to empathize with them, and thus, have an understanding of how to respond accordingly. If you can do the proper research on people and culture, it will give you a better understanding of the people on Earth, as well as the tools necessary to react to new situations with an appropriate level of perspective.

Culture ultimately helps to shape who you are, what you believe in, and the differences between you and the others around you.. As the article Culture and Subculture puts it, “Culture is part of the external influences that impact the consumer.” (paragraph 1) Culture has shaped the way humans have lived and evolved; and it will continue to do so as humans learn and grow.

Link to Document with Photos:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FDEmfvQomKzWk5PaZyXx-Zqp-wTouirvTNLWoYaiS7A/edit?usp=sharing

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The femininity and masculinity was very interesting as well as the effects of culture on moral beliefs and behavior. On the other hand, it was interesting to note the rate of the evolution of technology in proportion to the evolution of our genetic structure. That being in the fact that, in the existence of the modern human (about 2.5 million years), we had only just begun to exponentially evolve in both areas during the last 50,000 years or so. To which the natural question of, “Why didn’t this change come sooner,” comes to mind. Or rather, “Why hasn’t this type of change occurred within other known species of the modern day?”

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One of the specifics that seemed to have been left out of the picture, in terms of culture and evolution, was how things like breeding within different cultures and how specific occupations could’ve had an impact on the types of, and rate of, change in the human genome.

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Jordan Rose, Isabelle Ludka, Isaac Werner

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Jordan Rose, Isabelle Ludka, Isaac Werner

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2. With the different cultures we begin to expose ourselves to, the more obstacles we will also begin to encounter. The three articles touched on this broad issue in many specific ways, but a majority of the writing had the same message--the three biggest things that cause conflict or unrest between two different cultures is previous stereotyping, language barriers, and judgement of a large group of people. Some of the articles touched base on more then one topic while another just discussed one of the three aforementioned, but it all conveyed the same message that if we are able to pinpoint these possible factors, then interacting with other cultures can turn into more of a positive learning experience rather then a negative one. The pieces of writing also touched on the fact that there is a sense of entitlement within other cultures that carry into how they interact with others--obviously, the sense of entitlement can lead to a lot of discomfort and conflict. And while these articles mainly focused on figuring out what problems arise within our interactions, it also made it very clear that since culture is such a wide and human dependent concept, it is very easy to understand.

4. The information that touched on the fact that culture is often born overly dependent on how we view it was a new way to look at culture as a whole--the rest of the information was things my group members and I had either previously learned or had encountered in our own experiences.

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The article I read was Culture and Subculture. The main thing I took away from this article is that all cultures are different, but thats not a bad thing. Even though we all live different life styles, we are all united as human beings. It also talked about the ways we are different. Like how some countries might do something that is part of their everyday life, but is highly immoral in another culture or country. Even though the way we do things here in America might be different than in Germany doesn't mean we have to be disrespectful of those differences, but rather embrace them.

One interesting thing I found from this article was how we must be respectful of others languages. We as English speakers have now idea what words we say might mean to someone who speaks a different language, so we must be cautious.

Pictures: https://docs.google.com/document/d/126kaZSobCGjNmVziSLZWRSPbNYzOt1gJeIiR_DYCXYQ/edit?usp=sharing

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The idea of Culture varies so heavily between themselves that there is no one way to describe them. The fluid motion of interaction and change in them with slang, language, and social norms or likes causes the people and the interactions between them ( the root of cultures) to shift constantly. However it will always be that one is not born with culture. Culture, and in turn being a "cultured" person is something learned innately through our years of interactions, with peoples and places. However culture can go further than this, it can move into our very genes, such as lactose intolerance in some cultures in latin America or the ability to run for dozens of miles without stopping in some Native American cultures. Culture and its affects on the places, peoples and very DNA of people is obvious, its the way that we change it that is truthfully unforeseeable.

Information link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qBDHb5uMQOCtzxng5WH1HaPkOT8UXCTD-eL_CrMpOf8/edit?usp=sharing

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Some new information for the group as a whole was that culture can Affect genetic alterations and that language barriers can be so severe.

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Cassidy Faulhaber, Harley Lopez, Allie DAllesandro

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Cassidy Faulhaber, Harley Lopez, Allie DAllesandro

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Culture is not an androgynous topic. There is more of a logical set and stone concept behind the term. A culture is the way it is and that doesn´t change instantly. It is very easy to perceive a culture that is not your own incorrectly because of the culture you were raised in. It is very easy to stereotype cultures as an exaggerated entity instead of what it truly is. It is important to ask yourself questions before crossing cultures. Know how your culture differs from others and what the culture truly stands for and lives by. Know how people treat their peers and superiors. Cultures change over time and people are able to adapt to those changes. The population of a culture is shaped by natural selection as cultures change and humans must adapt. Our biological set up changes with these cultural changes and our surroundings.

Some things that we took away from this were that the way that other countries communicate can be flawed because of the culture we were raised in. Living your whole life one way can really cut off your perception of the way other people live who are different compared to you.  It was helpful to know what to do when learning about a new culture. We are wondering what other factors culture plays into besides marketing and lifestyle.

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All Cultures are different, and it takes time to understand and define what makes them so different. An example is that in Japan (if you are sitting) on a subway you sleep or lie on the person to your left. Or in China a business card is held in high regards, so you must accept the card by bowing after you take it (bowing is a more formal handshake in some countries). But the question is, what made a certain cultures how it is, or the root? Most of the time the root of a culture comes from folklore or legends passed down. Or just how some people did something that everyone started to do, and continued to do until it became normal. Another thing that makes cultures very different are the genetics, here in America it is common to see people with all hair colors and eye colors and every skin tone across the board. But in a place like China or Japan most people have Black hair unless one of their parents has a different lineage that wasn't form that country, same for skin tone as well.

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