My Cultures Padlet by Miles Thompson

My Cultures

milesdavidthompson — 2024-07-02 05:25:23 UTC

Many cultures I have are enveloped in the way I was raised, and my surroundings while others certainly came from my own interests.

Here are the 5 cultures I want to share with you, the reader!

Family-Made Traditions and Holidays
Video Game Culture
Christian Influenced Culture
American Cultural Greetings
Japanese Influenced Culture

Family-Made Traditions and Holidays

milesdavidthompson — 2024-07-02 05:45:15 UTC

I've had an amazing opportunity to see within my family the traditions or holidays we make for ourselves, which generally occur on a yearly basis.

An decent example would be a yearly trip we take to California. We often visit the exact same locations, and proceed to repeat doing the fun activities we did the years prior, like shopping, swimming, surfing, and visiting Disneyland. As time went on, we adopted more family traditions to keep annually. I recognize this as a cultural behavior in my family, since I not only feel heavily motivated to continue doing so in my future family, but also from observing families who maintain different cultural habits. Many parents will go out to be away from the kids for awhile, or other cases a family will all collectively visit new places, and do new activities at every opportunity they get. The cultural practice for me to have annual traditions with my household had been so intruigal in my childhood that I hadn't even considered that others do differently with their own.

Video Game Culture

milesdavidthompson — 2024-07-02 05:58:35 UTC

Those who participate in gaming knows that there's a large community of people around the world that connect through the games that they play. Included with the entertainment comes vocabulary, habits, muscle memory, and relatable experiences we all share with one another. Often games that are played with others require quick communication in order to accomplish a task within the game being played. In Rocket League a term like "wall dribble" or "flip reset" will help you read the play, or in Minecraft a "Notch Apple" or a "MLG water bucket" may save you from peril. Old games and new games alike come with their own lingo, slang, and terminology. It's often carried into regular conversation between friends with similar interests, and influences change in our communication, and humor.

Japanese Influenced Culture

milesdavidthompson — 2024-07-03 04:02:52 UTC

I had an incredible opportunity to live in Japan for around 17 months. I learned to speak the language and slowly started adopting some cultural customs and habits as I lived there. A major one for me is wanting to take my shoes off and leave them at the front door. In Japan it's commonly practiced to leave your shoes in a space by the front door that is dropped down a step below the main floor. This practice not only keeps the house clean, but shows respect to the house owner and their family when you do so. Other habits include how I use or wash chopsticks, meals I make, how I cook, and including common sayings Japanese people say before and after eating.

Christian Influenced Culture

milesdavidthompson — 2024-07-03 04:03:49 UTC

In Utah, there has been a heavy influence from Christianity, especially from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, that influences all those that live here whether they are practicing religious beliefs or not. I grew up as a member of the Latter-Day faith, and have kept many cultural traditions that we keep or celebrate. Many events happen yearly, like "Trunk or Treat", where many neighbors assemble in a nearby church parking lot or neighborhood circle, and have a good time with their neighbors passing out candy or making meals for people to enjoy. Other than seasonal traditions, we often hold certain things to be very valuable in this life. The family is one of the first things that comes to mind. Respecting parents, properly raising your children, learning to be loving towards siblings, these are all examples of moral that stem from our neighbors and church leaders.

American Cultural Greetings

milesdavidthompson — 2024-07-03 04:04:08 UTC

Americans have very interesting ways to greet one another in passing or when meeting up with one another. Often we (most often from males) jerk our head upward or downward to indicate acknowledgement of the other person, and may include a lifted hand or say something short and simple like, "Hey", "Sup", or "How's it going?". For me specifically, the nodding motion when passing strangers is a cultural practice I have used frequently in my lifetime. People I come across have often pointed out the reoccurring gesture I do with others when first meeting them. I got to spend some time living in another country, where hand waves and head nods were irregular and unfamiliar, which helped me to recognize it as a cultural behavior kept by American people.