On culture

culture and moral behavior

I know myself only as I get to know others more or understand culture more.

I understand myself because of somebody.

Asian philosophy…the ego is identified and premised on group

To exist is to co-exist ESSE CO-ESSE

I AM MYSELF BECAUSE OF OTHERS

– Cultural drivers of corruption in governance and business: reforms in the Philippines/ Building a
people, building a nation

UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT IS VERY IMPORTANT

Universal values – respect for human life….truth-telling

Context of culture

– Grand total of all objects, ideas, knowledge, institutions, ways of doing things, habits, behavior
patterns, values and attitudes which each generation in society receives and passes on-often in
altered form to its successors. (McGinn)

– Culture influences the actions and motives of members of the society.

– Foreground factors – refers to manifested action

– Background factors – specific motives and actions of the parties… the backdrop…

Cultural environmental system

Ideational – core ideas, world views, recognized body of knowledge, core beliefs, central values, and
behavioral norms and its characteristics tastes, styles, attitudes, expectations and aspirations.

Societal – institutions, groups, organizations, classes, social structure(differentiation and stratification

system), roles, statuses, rituals, processes and type of economy

Material – technologies, ways of making things, human made and built environments.

Personality and behavior subsystem – modernity altered the personality and behavior patters of the
people…filennials…