Culture

Last week, we had an assignment to present to the class, given different topics. Our presentation was based on values, norms, and sanctions. We demonstrated these three subjects into skits. Basically, on values we created a bathroom scene, where one person goes to a stall, and it is a hidden rule to not go to the stall right next to theirs. For norms, we had two people eating a banana, except one of the was eating it upside-down (which not many people do). And lastly, for sanctions we made the roles of a teacher and a student, and when the student received an A+, the teacher did the appropriate act and high-fived him (rather than hitting the rear-end like in football (-_-)’. The other presentations that my fellow classmates did were based on culture, material culture, nonmaterial culture, culture shock, culture relativism, etc. But the one that sparked my interest the most was ‘culture shock’. Culture shock is basically when there is intellectual discomfort when encountering a different environment. So let’s say you go into another country, and there is a different way to do many activities. It creates such an impact on you that you’re perplexed on how to act.