Week 9 Question 1

I agree with anthropologist Ruth Benedict that we are creatures of our culture. I believe that our habits, beliefs, and impossibilities are shaped by our culture. The reason is that when we were born in an environment, we starting to learn from our surroundings. And the surrounding affects our experience, which shape our behavior and what we believe in. As Benedict put it “We are the products of our cultures”(p.343). How can we break through the limits of our cultures? I believe as we are growing, we naturally move beyond our culture. We become more intelligent and interact with people from different culture background. In this process, we are changing, we begin to expand and become selective. Even though we are changing, we still remain some of the characteristics that reflect on our culture but adding or changing some habits and impossibilities to be more suitable in the bigger society.