Question

Your definition of culture. Explain two ways culture influences human psychology. Then describe a specific example of human behavior (e.g., aggression, gender-specific behaviors, or mental health) and explain one way this behavior may be exhibited differently among the three cultures you selected. Support your responses using the Learning Resources and the current literature.

Answer 1

The culture is set of beliefs, ideas or values towards religion. A man can even consider his hobby or passiob as religion, for eg: helping poor people, any sports is just like religion for any sportsman. The culture shapes a person's ideas, a person's ego or id i.e. repressed thoughts can be based upon culture.

For eg: being agressive in culture of red indians, or maaori is fine, hence they would not find anything wrong if they are aggressive, whereas in some cultures such as in India, peace, calm are laid more values, so such agression is disturbing for Indians.

Similarly Having freedom, doing career can be a mind set of psychology for a woman of western world but same psychology or minnd set a woman from arabic countreis many not have due to the imposed restrictions or the culture itself.

Having a joint family, caring for parents, loving them, eating food together, marrying at the parent's consent is the culture which most of the Indians follow, whereas western culture like USA, UK one may find living with parents very odd, or would prefer not to live. Similar is the case of divorce, marrying third time. These ideas may seem ok for the western culture. This is the psychology behind falling in love or easily demanding for divorce. Whereas in eastern culture or Indian culture, the child's needs are thought first. And taking divorce is not that emotionally easy job. There are also many social norms behind the same