Recognition Define and Provide an

Recognition Define and provide an example of a "culture bump." culture bump is an event that occurs when a person has expectations of a particular behavior, but gets something different when interacting with individuals from another culture. Expectations refer to the expectations of "normal" behavior as learned in one's own culture. A culture bump can be a pleasant, neutral, or unpleasant experience. People can experience culture bumps anytime and most people experience many different culture bumps when they live or travel in another country.

While living in another culture, one finds many things that are the same as in one's own country. In these instances, the two cultures fit together. However, there are other things that are different. The points at which the two cultures differ are usually the areas that interfere in the development of successful cross-cultural relationships. On a positive note, if the specific points of difference are analyzed, they can lead to a deeper understanding.

but, if they are not analyzed appropriately, they can cause stereotyping of people in the other culture. The following is an example of a culture bump. In a North American university if a student is late for class, the polite thing to do is to enter the classroom quietly and sit down. it's considered best not to interrupt the class.

In China, on the other hand, if a Chinese student was late, the student would knock on the classroom door, give an excuse and then wait for the teacher's permission to enter the room. An American university professor would be surprised by a foreign student knocking on the classroom door. This would be a culture bump for the American professor.

Likewise, a Chinese professor would be shocked by a student simply entering the room and quietly taking a seat without permission and would therefore have his or her own culture bump. 2.What are the difficulties inherent in attempting to define the concepts of race, culture, and ethnicity? Race is a concept used to categorize people into different groups based on physical and biological characteristics. However, very few human beings belong to pure racial groups. A phenotype characterizing one group of people can be found amongst other groups of people.

and, behavioral characteristics ascribed to race are more likely to be culturally determined rather than biologically or genetically determined. In addition, it is extremely difficult to predict that an individual will behave in a particular manner purely on the basis that they may be defined as fitting the characteristics of a particular racial group, thus the benefit of the term culture.

Culture is."..the learned, socially acquired traditions and lifestyles of the members of a society, including their patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, felling and acting..." According to experts, the drawbacks of using culture are that: There is no generally agreed list of behaviors or material products taken to constitute the culture of a particular group Cultural characteristics of a group do not completely distinguish them apart from each other Culture does not deal well with notions such as individuals having the capacity to be bicultural or multicultural.

These shortcomings have motivated the development of the term ethnicity to better address and deal with understanding human group. Ethnicity is an identity that reflects the cultural experiences and feelings of a particular group. An ethnic group may have common ancestry; memories of a shared historical past; a distinctive shared culture; a collective name; and a sense of solidarity and an association with a specific territory.

The concept of ethnicity acknowledges that individuals may have a primary culture that is distinctive to a particular ethnic group, but does not exclude the possibility that individuals within that group have the capacity to learn cultural behaviors of other groups. 3. What is meant by the comment, "Culture is like water for the fish?" The following quote by writer Aime Cesair best illustrates what is meant by the comment, "Culture is like water for fish." According to Cesair, "Culture is everything.

Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties -- it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses." So, just as culture is necessary for survival of the fish, culture is the foundation for human life. Culture, as a body of learned behaviors common to a given human society, serves as a template with predictable form and content to shape behavior and consciousness within a human society from generation to generation.

Therefore, culture resides in all learned behavior and in some shaping template or consciousness prior to behavior as well. This isn't far different from water shaping the behavior of fish. The water dictates everything the fish does: what it eats, where it goes, and how it moves. Just like fish, many qualities of human life are transmitted genetically such as the desire for food. but, desire for specific foods cannot be explained genetically; rather, it is a learned (cultural) response to hunger.