Journal #28

In sociology, we just did presentations about different cultures and the things that they believe and do. Through listening to the different presentations, I found some of the aspects interesting and some very odd aspects as well. If I were put into the place of some of the cultures we discussed, I could be very uncomfortable. Many of the cultures were hunter gatherers. As we live, we go to the grocery store buy our packaged meat and berries, and go home and eat them. In the hunter gatherer societies they have to go out and pick berries and kill and animal each time they want food. Although this is a bit extreme of a difference, there are other situations that would be different. For example if I was put into a very wealthy society, I would probably act how they would consider inappropriate. Although I am not an inappropriate person, Some of the behaviors that we would consider normal would be rude or inappropriate. For example, if you are put into a wealthy society and you were to not dress as nice or make a joke they thought was a child's joke, you would be deemed rude and the odd one of the group. In our culture we have a certain definition of what is normal to us. When people are put into our society and do not act like how we do, we automatically think that they are odd or do not associate with them because they are different. We all have a certain type of person that we all are, and is a part of each of us within our culture, and each culture itself has one. When put into a different society, we must either choose to conform and act as they do, or act as we think our normal is and accept that they may not include you as a part of their culture or society any longer. If you think about it there are so many cultures in the world and each of them is its own.