Learning Journal 9

In the section we read of Agar's book Culture Blends the quote "Culture has to do with who you are" was an interesting way to think about culture. Truly culture has to do with who we are. I think that is a very accurate statement because even though there are different cultures around the world our specific culture is defined as who we are. I liked the example in class Dallin used about how we are all Americans but yet there were many different ways in how we would deal with certain situations. He made the point that it is important to remember that even though we are going into a Tongan culture everyone is different. Although they might believe and do somethings the same they are all different. It was interesting for me to think about culture that way because I always thought culture was just how a group of people believed, thought, and acted. I think everyone belongs to a certain culture but they also have their own culture and way of doing things that has to do with how they were raised.