Perspectives of Culture



Perspectives of Culture

Introduction

Society is a name given to systems or organizations created by the humans. Societies are what connect the individuals in a common culture. Culture is considered to be the basic component of the society. Culture is known to be a set of rules, traditions, as well as symbols which help shape thoughts, behaviors and feelings of the groups of people. Culture includes all the things created by the humans (Kalman B,2009). These would include beliefs, habits, artifacts as well as arts. These are passed on from one generation to the other. Societies distinguish from one another according to these formulations. Amongst the cultures include norms, values as well as symbols of the societies. Language is considered to be a set of symbols through which humans are able to facilitate the process of communicating the feelings, ideas as well as experiences with one another. Language is not just known to be a means to express oneself or a tool, but it also helps individuals significantly in shaping the experience of the world and what is seen around individuals. Values are known to be the ideas that determine what is considered bad, good, desirable or undesirable. Whereas, norms are the behaviors as well as the concepts which constitute what should be termed as normal. Norms may originate from values but they also tend to differ from them as well. Norms are responsible for establishing the expectations that help interaction amongst humans. The study is made to highlight the different perspectives of the cultures like culture of UK and China The discussion covers the type of norms and customs of these cultures. Furthermore the discussion also reflects about my personal experiences related to culture and the surprises about the culture. In addition to this it is also discussed that ...