Culture_Awareness

Culture Awareness Tara Rumph Human beings first (in a developmental sense) are members of families and communities Distinguished by ethnic, class, and religious cultural perspectives. Ethnic, class, and religious communities shape human desire and self-understanding in accordance with some more or less coherent worldview or conception of the good life. As such, they introduce values and standards of conduct that establish a system of "preferences" -- i.e., differentials of rank, status, and relative worth. Human beings whose self-understanding is shaped by these standards identify themselves and one another in terms of particular community membership and local ranking systems. In short, the defining attribute of liberal citizenship -- free and equal individuality -- is alien to the perspectives that most immediately shape human life. Values are significantly relative to and vary across cultures. The Diversity Thesis acknowledges the fact that, "moral rules differ from society to society." To obtain these personal values and beliefs we must first know the cultural background we belong to and adapt and take on the values to the culture we belong. Values are an important component of culture because they help to explain and give an interpretation to their actions in the world. Culture is knowledge, beliefs, morals, rules/laws culture, society, values, moral, wrong, beliefs, right, people, human, cultural, upon, rules, particular, learned, different, truth, relative, members, laws, cultures, common, behaviors, because, actions, yet, world, women, whose, whereas, view, vary, teachings, standards, standard, socially