The definition for "Culture" is that it consists of beliefs, ways of behaving, and artifacts of a group of people. Culture is transferred from one person to another person through communication and learning rather than through genes, as a person would not be born with the knowledge of cultures.
Gender is considered a major cultural variable factor because cultures teach boys and girls different usually opposite attitudes,beliefs, values, and ways of communicating and relating to one another in their life. For example, it is generally not acceptable for male to cry in public while on the other hand if a female were to cry in public it is much more acceptable since it is a general believe that females are more emotional than male. How we act in our life today, a large part of it is taught by our culture such as how to act as a man or woman.
In today's modern world, gender roles are slowly changing. A great deal of men, for example does much more housekeeping chores and caring for their children when in contrast, more women are now becoming more visible in fields of work once occupied only exclusively by men for example - politics, law enforcement, the military and fire fighting. Also women are now increasing in numbers in the corporate executive ranks which once only dominated by men.
The way we communicate are heavily influenced by the culture which we were raised making culture highly relevant to communication and it also produce a cultural perspective in each of us.
Below are reasons why culture is important :
by Leong Sze Huang
Gender is considered a major cultural variable factor because cultures teach boys and girls different usually opposite attitudes,beliefs, values, and ways of communicating and relating to one another in their life. For example, it is generally not acceptable for male to cry in public while on the other hand if a female were to cry in public it is much more acceptable since it is a general believe that females are more emotional than male. How we act in our life today, a large part of it is taught by our culture such as how to act as a man or woman.
In today's modern world, gender roles are slowly changing. A great deal of men, for example does much more housekeeping chores and caring for their children when in contrast, more women are now becoming more visible in fields of work once occupied only exclusively by men for example - politics, law enforcement, the military and fire fighting. Also women are now increasing in numbers in the corporate executive ranks which once only dominated by men.
The way we communicate are heavily influenced by the culture which we were raised making culture highly relevant to communication and it also produce a cultural perspective in each of us.
Below are reasons why culture is important :
- Demographic changes ( The characteristics of human populations and population segments)
- Increased sensitivity to cultural differences
- Economic interdependency
- Advances in communication technology
by Leong Sze Huang
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