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Day 2.2 - Cultural Variations

9/14/2016

Guiding Thought Question: From you own experience explain how there are cultural variations between the following groups listed below. Make sure your explanations are school appropriate.
   - Age Groups
   - Ethnic Groups
   - Gender Groups

Today's Learning Objective: Students will be able to describe the differences and characteristics of Folk and Popular cultures. Students will learn about Cultural Relativism and will be able to apply it to the study of culture. Students will take notes on the different types of culture and their characteristics, and then do a reading on Cultural Relativism then watch a TED talk about Folk cultures with associated thought questions relating to the topics of the day.

8 Comments

Leinen

9/15/2016 01:04:23 pm

We have different age ranges, ethnic groups and genders as well.

Miles Lyons

9/15/2016 01:07:25 pm

The differences between age groups is that older indivituals can't comprehend how the younger generation acts, even people from different religions have different standards. For example Judaism places a higher importance on education.

Sheldon

9/15/2016 01:11:40 pm

Age groups were effected by different things in their lives. For instance people that were alive and witnessed 9/11 will not soon forget it, but people like my siblings that are only 5 will not have any emotional attachment to the event, therefor they are less likely to be effected by it.
Ethnic Groups are effected differently based on what they are taught. A very good example of this is converting people to their religion, a Christian may do it one way, while another might do it another perhaps more violet way.

The way that different cultures treat different genders are very different. While the Native Americans treated the women almost as equals, the Muslims men treat the women very differently.

Keilah Lewis

9/15/2016 01:13:05 pm

Cultures has many variations in gender roles, some cultures may be male dominant where the males have to work and bring in money or vise versa. Other times male and female have equal roles like the United States.

Jenna

9/15/2016 01:15:08 pm

- Age Groups
There will always be a divide with age groups, for example with technology, kids are very advanced because they grew up with it but some older people need help using a basic computer
- Ethnic Groups
Ethic groups are different because they all have a common interest, people gravitate towards people like them.
- Gender Groups
Gender is divided because of sexism. A lot of girls feel more comfortable around other girls

Wallace Meyer

9/15/2016 01:20:20 pm

Age: Older people see most younger teens as reckless and irresponsible and younger teens see older people as boring and sometimes senile.
Ethnic groups: People judge each other off what other ethnicities wear. For example, If we see a woman wearing a burqa or hijab we don't understand why and we may thinks it's useless but they probably think its odd that we don't wear them.
Gender: Guys and girls get judged for different things while the other gender doesn't. For instance, It's against dress code for girls to come to school with tank tops on but guys can.

Meyerwallace

9/15/2016 01:22:21 pm

Age: the older a person is(senior) the weaker they are viewed by society and the more helpless/useless they are to society.
Ethnicity: based on the color of people's skin or their heritage can determine how they are viewed by society or treated by members of that society, in either a positive or a negative way.
Gender: gender roles play a huge role in society, things like women are weak and should stay in the house and men should be left to all the hard labor/major decisions play a large part. Preferred gender identities and homophobia have always been big and are still a very sensitive topic because not everyone accepts it or agrees with it, but there is also a very large number of people that do support it, so like all of these topics there are usually two sides, either agree or disagree, and people will have their opinions or thoughts on those topics.

kez

9/15/2016 01:28:07 pm

People in different age groups live entirely different lives to others. There are similarities, but they inhabit different worlds for most of their lives, and it's a noticeable difference. They are shaped by unique circumstances of their times and that makes each age group distinct from the others

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