How were u raised ??
For this blog I decided to write from the perspective of how different people have been raised to exercise either individualistic culture or collectivistic culture. Growing up my parents encouraged me care about the people around me and their feelings. I have a friend, who on the other hand, was raised completely different. Her mom taught her to only care for herself and her family, do whatever it takes for her to be successful. No matter what, don’t let anything stand in her way. That in return, made her this person who is very blunt, sometimes rude, and very nonchalant about everything. She is still one of my closest friends and I love her more than I can explain but she is still more invested in no one but herself and her family.
This chapter could have been interpreted different ways, but I immediately thought of the way people act and how some people cannot control the fact that they act the way they do. In other words, I think of it as a personality trait, some people are individualistic and some are more collectivistic. The article can further support this notation in many ways. For example, Griffin et. al. defines individualistic culture by saying, “wherein people look out for themselves and their immediate families; I-identity, a low-context culture,” (437). The chapter goes on to define collectivistic culture with Griffin et. al. stating, “wherein people identify with a larger group that is responsible for providing care in exchange for group loyalty; we-identity; a high-context culture,” (437). The chapter also included a real-life scenario and in the second paragraph Griffin et. al. states, “we must have frowned because this girl from a collectivism culture instantly retracted her statement and continually apologized, saying that she didn’t believe we had “round” faces,” (439).
There were plenty of quotes that could have been used in order to support my claim but I felt by giving both of the definitions it would give a better understanding to what was being talked about. The definitions helped support the claim because it further defined what was being said. The last quote helps by showing that some people learn differently because further down that article was the mom stating something totally opposite of the girl that came off as blunter.