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5/5/21W07 Culture and Psychology

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  Can our social culture influence our psychology? It seems that if it influences and can affect our esteem, whether of gender or capabilities, cataloging women as being the devil sex was one of the paradigms that is being removed from our current society or that men do not cry, why not? we are human beings with feelings and we can cry, laugh without determining who can and who cannot. In our Latin American culture, there is not much difference between one country and another about the differences they make between women and men or between boys and girls, but this type of behavior is changing, I can see it in adolescents, they have more extensive information. of the place, that man or woman occupies in society and they have broken many paradigms that in my adolescence limited me to do many of the activities that I would have liked to do and I am glad that this happens because there should be no difference in capacities between men and the woman and not by the race that defines us. ...
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6/4/21 W07 Differences in Manners

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I remember when I was a child the effort you make to follow the rules and good behavior inside and outside the home, I remember saying hello shaking hands I always confused about which hand to greet, and sometimes I did it with my left hand and my mother always remembered me with "The right girl!" And it was unforgivable if he did not greet the elders, well I think that in all cultures good and bad manners are cultivated and what for my culture is good for other cultures will be bad. . Belching If I ever have to be in China or Taiwan, it would be terrible for me to have lunch with them because erupting at the table is a bad way is unpleasant, in my country doing it is a sign of bad manners, rude. Exposing Your Palms While in my country to greet by waving the palms of the hands is a sign of kindness and friendship and it is a habit in Greece it is extremely offensive, if I ever visit Greece I will take it into account I do not want to be offensive.  No Tipping! It's okay y...
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2/6/21 w07 Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

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  Having Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom is a challenge for the future TESOL teacher because he must develop a work plan to achieve a good student environment. He will have to consider Asian students with their high respect for teachers, their low expressiveness, and their little participation due to their cultural paradigms. African American students with their active participation and high expressiveness, American whites tend to be less expressive, Hispanics with their high tolerance for expressiveness. Don't let the teacher be surprised if an American student enters the classroom late without apologizing or if African Americans talk too much or if Asians just want to participate all of this is part of cultural behaviors. Professor Ivers said: We live in an egalitarian society, supposedly. Now, is it really egalitarian? Before God we are all equal, we all have the same opportunities and rights, we are all subject to the law. With these precepts we must act before the cro...
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5/26/21 Attributional Tendencies

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  Attributing our successes or failures to ourselves or someone else is not only a personal trend but also a cultural one. Professor Ivers tells us that the typical American will attribute his successes internally. However, when something negative happens to him, he will attribute it externally as blaming the parents or the teachers or the people who did not act well with them, this also happens in my social environment, I do not know if it is part of my culture but I have heard it many times, The opposite happens in Japan, they tend to attribute their success externally, recognizing that thanks to their parents, teachers, and friends they may have achieved success and internalize their failures by blaming themselves on them. Recognizing the circumstances in which things happen helps us avoid the tendency to look guilty if we fail in our goals, I believe that our life progresses with successes and failures, when we succeed in our goals we must first be grateful to God who is with u...
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5/28/21 Personal Space Differences

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  Personal space, how valuable it is to know the limits to which we can access in our relationship with others. Because they are unique beings without replication, the private space is unique too. Whatever our culture, I believe that all human beings feel the need to have their private space, a moment just for you, this is also part of independence. It would be a perfect world if we kept the social distance, we would avoid misunderstandings and bad experiences, we understand well that the proximity to the intimate area is reserved for the closest family, and as far as you feel calm because if we feel that the proximity makes us uncomfortable then maintain distance. I do not agree with the excess number of passengers on buses or trains and I believe that countries that allow that should regulate transport conditions, I have always been one of the people who avoid traveling on buses that do not consider the appropriate space between passengers and This happens in my country too and y...
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27/5/21 Individualism vs. Collectivism

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  Being individualists helps us to develop self-sufficiency, independence, develop personal goals, and be responsible for our decisions, I believe that to some extent we must be individualists, but we also need collectivism, which consists of having goals for a group, at the work, family or as a society. Collectivistic persons easily sacrifice individual benefits or praise to recognize and honor the team’s success. In emerging societies, collectivism can help the group to get ahead, teamwork helps to make the loads lighter and the benefits are for everyone. in the academic environment a n example of how individualism versus collectivism may play out at a university is related to academic integrity. At a university in the United States where individualism is considered the norm, each student is expected and generally required to do their work. Sometimes this is confusing to international students from a collectivistic society who come to a university in the United States. The collec...
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5/26/21 w06 Differences in Emotional Expressiveness

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  Listening to Professor Iver about high tolerance for emotional expressions and a low tolerance for emotional expressions helped me better understand why some cultures act differently in public even though all human beings have the same emotional expressions or facial gestures. As a Latin American that I am, my culture has a high tolerance for expressions of emotions, for example, when a loved one dies, families tend to demonstrate our heartbreaking pain with tears, sometimes screams. Attitudes that I did not see in British people and I thought "how cold they are", but now I understand their behavior in public I am sure that in the privacy of home they will express their emotions freely. Our emotional expression in public changes and it can be influenced by the ingrained culture around us. But this high tolerance or low tolerance to emotional expressions can not only be seen in different cultures but even in the people around us, even though we are from the same culture. In ...
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