Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I'm Me, Raised In My Culture
It is often said that if you want to understand a people you must study their culture. In our most recent class period we talked about the Culture Theory. This theory suggests that we are, who we have become largely because of the Culture that raised us. As a class we divided into groups and acted as outsiders studying the culture of BYU-Idaho. My group came up with 3 subcultures of the students here at the university. Fist, Married/Family Students next, Steady Dating Students and also Single Students. It was a great experience to learn why some of us act so different from eachother just because of our current relationship status.
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Ha! Ya that pretty much sums up BYU-I
ReplyDeleteYou know I was in your group, but it is true. Coming out here for college was a culture shock. There is definitely a code and culture when dating and getting married. I always say there is the Idaho way and reality way. The real world has such a complete opposite way of viewing dating and marriage. It is interesting to live in both places.
ReplyDeleteI always have thought of BYU-I as one culture. I didn't realize that there could be so many subcultures. Once my group started thinking of subcultres, we came up with at least 10 different ones! Very interesting study.
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