Noemi cantera

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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 ...

To communicate correctly with the world that surrounds us, even with the closest people, we have to know the way they communicate and that does not imply the language, but the attitudes, gestures, idioms, behavior, customs, and traditions. I want to include this comparative paragraph on how to interpret and understand different cultures. The tip of the iceberg, or the smallest portion that is visible on the surface of the water, presents visible or identifiable components of culture, such as food, clothing, language, dance, arts, etc. These visible components tend to be easily understood at face value. Beneath the surface is the most fundamental and often misunderstood components of culture, such as interpretations, core, and moral values, forms of communication, and assumptions. All of these concepts that lie beneath the surface of the iceberg are complicated and rarely change easily or frequently, making them more difficult for someone outside of the "inner" group to unders...

“ Time is all the capital stock there is on the earth. … If properly used, it brings that which will add to your comfort, convenience, and satisfaction. Let us consider this, and no longer sit with hands folded, wasting time.” President Brigham Young time is a divine gift and knowing how to manage it wisely brings great rewards. If we organize our life schedule well, we will have time for everything, God in the first place, family, work, service, education, recreation, and personal time. I belong to a polychronic society and it is difficult for me to lead a monochronic life that would be ideal to advance more with our goals but we are constantly interrupted by different social activities, yes, because we are a very festive society and we almost always do not respect time even though we are sociable life fills us with joy and surrounds us with contacts, makes us postpone a stable agenda. Living in a polychronic society has its advantages such as having a wide network of contacts and I c...

 5/20/21 week 5                                  Cultural Paradigms Traveling through different parts of my country allowed me to know their customs, traditions, and social behavior. Each town I visited had its social norms or customs that had to be respected. Some seemed out of place to me because they were not allowed to go beyond what they had already achieved. I lived in a neighborhood that surrounded him with many paradigms, my father always said "The one who was born to be fat even if they wrap him up", or "some are born with stars and others with stars" when I asked him for an explanation of his sayings, they did not leave me convinced is it possible that we will never get out of our economic condition? Or if I was born with few academic skills, would I not be successful? they were paradigms that they brought from their ancestors.  When I knew the gospel of Jesus Christ, I was still ver...