https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf The Deep Structure of Culture en-us 2017-09-21 06:32:28 UTC 2017-09-25 03:24:36 UTC hello@padlet.com u0626331 https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189622245 A: I believe families exist because humans are mentally and sexualy attracted to types of people who appeal to us, and we have a deep-set feeling inside of us that it's immoral to abandon babies if we create them.  Also families fulfill many wants and needs relating to communication, materials, food and water, and life lessons.  So it makes sense that we would want to be part of them.  I believe the reason there are so many different forms of families is because every family has some level of dysfunction in it, but some relationships hit levels of dysfunction that make people want to abandon a relationship--this often creates single parent homes and the like.  Also different sexual orientations may lead some people towards non-majority lifestyles.

]]> 2017-09-21 06:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189622245 u0626331 https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189624083 A: I learned my perceptions on the elderly from my family and friends.  My great grandfather and grandmother on my dad's side lived to their mid 90's and we visited them a few times every year (a pathetic number compared to some cultures).  Old age had brought with it hearing and memory problems and frail bodies, but I was always taught to be aware that they had been every age I would likely ever be and that I would someday be like them if I were lucky enough to live that long.  I never looked down on them for going through something natural. 

 I have noticed lines from songs like "we laugh when old people fall" (a silly popular sum 41 song), and I've noticed the "looking younger is better" advertising in media, but I've never embraced it, just like I've never embraced the idea that I need a lamborgini though popular culture advertises it on some level.  I have no desire for a car that costs 200k and gets 10 mpg, regardless of how fast it goes. And I don't want to be ignorant towards humans who have simply lived a long life; that's not something to be prejudiced towards anyone for.   My family most affected my perceptions on the elderly.

]]> 2017-09-21 06:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189624083 u0626331 https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189626597 A: American culture on the whole has become more and more tolerant, accepting, and embracing of different people as diversity has increased.  Racism will always exist, but the more anti-racist people the more work racists have to do to put a dent in the moral of those who are against it.  On a community level I thnk racism is dying down to the point that when two different cultures fight, it's usually not based primarily on their culture; it's based on the types of things two of the same cultured people might fight over.  Less racism equals more valuable conversations and less fights.

American culture varies from other cultures so of course there will be misunderstandings due to different ways of doing what's right.  America believes in individualism, firm-handshakes, looking people in the eye, and aggressively going after what one wants.  So before communicating with a more passive culture it is wise for us to consider that they do things differently.  Or else we get akward situations like Donald Trump's handshake with the minister of Japan.

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A: Both competition and cooperation were stressed as important parts of the world by my family.  It depended on the context; both competition and cooperation have their place and time.  My parents signed me up for soccer and taught me to always try to do my best to help my team win, that's one of the many examples of competition.  My parents took us as kids to clean the church sometimes and we used teamwork to achieve the goal of a clean church.  I would say examples that promoted the idea of cooperation were more prevalent in my childhood, but both were certainly present.]]> 2017-09-21 07:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189630824 u0626331 https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189632069 A: My parents are Mormon and they took me and my siblings to church where religious leaders explained the Book of Mormon or sometimes the Bible to us.  Stories were presented as historical facts and most of us believed them the same way we would believe a history teacher or a man telling a story about Santa Clause.  Today i have no opinion on the church I was in as a child.  I left the church because Mormon trends caused a lot of family problems for me and made me not want to be around my family for a while, so I stopped going to church with them.  (I was the 2nd child in a six kid family.  Imagine having a brother less than two years older than you above you, and 4 other siblings most less than two years apart from each other right below you, it can be complete chaos with extremely low levels of love and guidance.  Mom and dad both always busy and stressed out with younger kids, mom always has pregnancy stresses and pains.  Most kids who loved being in a large family the most are the last-born ones.  They're usually the ones who get normal family conditions)  Even after leaving i had a small bit of belief in the religion, but over time I've heard a lot of different information on the religion brought up, and I've hit the point to where I'm indifferent towards the religion, though my best friend is a Mormon and a good portion of my family is still Mormon.  I'll never go back, that i know for sure.

]]> 2017-09-21 07:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/189632069 benfehr22 https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/190328937 It sounds like in some situations competition and cooperation go hand in hand. The example you have about soccer seems to be a good one. I think you have to cooperate with your team members in order to play well, but at the same time you're competing against the other team. It seems to me that the teams that cooperate well with each other tend to do better in competitions than those that don't cooperate well with each other.]]> 2017-09-23 03:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/190328937 u0907723 https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/190661085 I really like your answer to why we need families.I  believe It is an innate want that we want to be with other people. I definitely agree that families give you many necessities like social structure, language acquisition, etc. I would disagree that families vary with dysfunction. To an extent I believe is about the parents and the situation. Sometimes, people don't stay together, but I don't think that it's dysfunction.]]> 2017-09-25 03:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/u0626331/lvpskdz4o6zf/wish/190661085