Culture Culture Culture

Hey Sociologists in training. While I am busy trying to catch up reading all of your Unit 1 reflections I hope you enjoy starting your first blogs on CULTURE.

Taking some of the information we have worked on so far, and keeping in mind the fish/water metaphor, look at some of the material and non-material (symbolic) forms of culture that we see so clearly as "different" in other cultures and identify some that exist here in US Culture. What are some words/phrases/sayings, behaviors, customs, etc that we do in the USA that would be really hard to explain/translate/understand if you were from another culture????? Go a step further and try to explain why we do those things the way we do and how that might shape the way an individual (not you necessarily) would think about the world around them!!!

Don't forget the pump-fake nose flinch if you are going to Honduras anytime soon.....ps, not a good time to go as they are in the middle of curfews and violent protests due to a several month long Coup-de-etat right now. (Kind of weird having friends, living where I used to live and breath everyday just like here, living with such chaos and disorder!)