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ASSIGNMENT # 1. TOPIC: CULTURE

1. Identify the concepts and notions about culture which are present in this text (at least
culture, globalization, values, traditions, cultural shock, ethnocentrism). Explain and
justify your answers.

As it can be seen in the text through the expression of the shareholder Barry, the

investors remained very nervous throughout the inspection of the master of the Chinese

martial art. So that a more than noticeable concern for the situation at stake is glimpsed,

as well as a tense feeling of the environment for the group of shareholders due to the

ignorance they have about the political and social cultural orient mechanisms that the

Chinese teacher receives as a heritage of his culture.

This leads to a cultural clash between East and West that translates into a feeling of

bewilderment on the part of Americans at the perspective and inspection of the Chinese

master. Shock, which is intrinsically caused by a context of globalization, which goes

back directly to the frontal clash between cultural forms, as well as thought and

tradition. Such as is narrated in the fragment, since we see how in a apparent principle

objective interpretation of a certain fact; as is on a priori way the optimal verification of

a building for the performance of an activity and its subsequent authorization, falls into

the deep and endless well of subjectivity, where, in this case, there are two ways of

interpreting an entity which confront with each other, and I may reiterate, a priori, of an

objective estimation fact.

In conclusion, I will mention a concept that, although it has already been subtly

reviewed, I believe will should bring us a greater emphasis.

We speak of ethnocentrism, conceived as that sociological doctrine that judges the

patterns and mechanisms of a specific external or foreign culture from the point of view

of a culture taken as a reference or starting point, which acts as a judge over this first

one. In the text we find a clear example of ethnocentrism when the scouts and listeners

observe the Chinese master; judging their curiosities, giving their opinions on their

methods and distrusting their criteria, under the gloomy orchestra that plays the

symphony of the climate of tension of the clash of cultures.

2. Select one object (around you) that represents something important about your
culture. Attach a picture and describe the cultural meaning of the object (linking the
product to the cultural values which it embodies).

Within my sea of ideas and concepts whose

inheritance corresponds to the undoubted genetic
code of culture in my subconscious, and in the
way in which it shapes my thinking and my
reasoning mechanisms, even subconsciously, I
have chosen to choose an entity more than an
image that is the fundamental pillar of my
thinking and of all Western culture: God.