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Are You A Part Of Your Culture?
Or is your Culture a part of you?
We’re all coming from different part of the world along with different cultures.
I am a French guy going out with a Japanese girl, a Nepalese colleague, with loads of friends who are American, Chinese, Korean, Australian, etc.
We’ve all grown in very different setups and have developed different mindsets and habits. This is caused not only by the way our parents brought us up, but also by the environment as a whole.
Our country or even our prefecture’s cultures vary, sometimes drastically, and that’s also why we, as people, evolve in extremely different ways.
Individual or Society
One of the aspects which can be drastically disturbing is the difference between individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
This is also the most starking difference between Western and “Asian” cultures.
As a French person, I’ve been brought up in a very individualistic culture. What I should do first is what is good for myself. If it positively impacts others, all the better. If not, that’s your problem. Not mine.
That’s obviously a bit stereotyped here, but that’s more or less it.
