Culture is the social hertiage of a people. In my opinion i think that culture control people, because individuals are born in into their culture and that is how they are raised. When you are born into a culture then most of the time you live and obey by the rules of that culture even if you do not want to, because that is what you were taught when you was born. People be afraid to break the regular norms of their culture becasue that is all they know even though they might not agree with their culture beliefs and living standards. For example: the culture of Congolese, (which is a culture that developed in Africa), believe that a father should be the person that take his daughter virginity. Some of the girls that have to experience this does not agree with it, but what can they do it is their culture. Things like this is why i think culture control people because people are afraid to live outside the culture they was raised in.
In my opinion the people control the culture. Why? Because without the people there would be no culture. For example people have religious beliefs and most of the time they start when that person is young. As they get older they continue to hold on to their belief system because that is how they were raised. But without the people there would be no religious beliefs to hold on to, because there would be no one there to hold on to them. So to me you really need the people to make up a culture. Without people there would not be a belief system or living standards. Also if a person doesn't like the way that their culture practice certain things they have a right to come out and be a part of a culture that they want to belong to. People set rules and standards that they are going to follow and believe. That plainly says to me that we control how we live and what we believe.
I feel like culture definitely controls people. People seem to be naive in a sense because they don't want to go outside of their "norms" because it isn't what they are use to. If we didn't have different cultures everyone would be open to doing and trying different things without thinking that its nasty or weird we wouldn't think twice about doing it because no one would have set those standards.
I AGREE WIT JEREMY IN A WAY BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY FOR US TO KNOW ABOUT A CULTURE IS THROUGH SOMEONE ELES.BUT AT THE SAME TIME ITS UP TO THE PERSON TO KNOW IF THEY WANT TO FOLLOW SOMETHING CALLED "CULTURE".THE BEST WAY TO KNOW THE ANSWER IS TO ASK YOURSELF.DO YOU FOLLOW A CULTURE?DOES IT CONRTOL YOU OR DO YOU CONTROL THE CULTURE?I THINK IM CONTROLING MY CULTURE A LITTLE I DNT FOLLOW EVERYTHING BUT I FOLLOW THE CULTURE TO SOME POINT.
In my opinion it is both. A person has the choice to except the belief's, behaviors, and ideas of their culture. Everyone is born into a culture and taught that this is who you are. I believe that culture does not define you, but i do believe that culture creates division. It seperates the poor from the rich, the young from the old, and the blacks from the whites. For example the Qin Dynasty in China esptablished the official language, and writing system throughtout china during 221 B.C. Why? this was a way for everyone to be able to communicate with one another throughout china, especially during the warring state period. This became part of China's culture that united the people of china as a whole but also isolated them from the rest of the world. In retrospec this was a good and bad thing. Not all of the people agreed with this but when you put your power in the hands of an emperior you have given up your right to think and decide for yourself. So in other words the people create the culture that they live in, and without the people there would be no culture. But sometimes we allow the culture that we created to take control of us, and even destroy us.
In my opinion, I strongly believe that culture control people. In order a for culture to exist, it needs people to be the symbol of that culture. The culture does the following to people control what they eat, believe, raise families, and etc. Culture teaches and shows what that person is to do and how to do it. Culture is also a sense direction for those who are in the same culture there is some type of relation and similarity. If people were to control the culture how would they get people to be in that culture. For example, there are cultures that eat certain foods or have multiples of marriages. Everyone person is not going to agree to be apart of that culture.
I believe both. the reason being is because people have the right to control there behavor an they can choose what they want to do in life. culture does not define you you define your self for example i grew up beliving to do things a certain way in life now for some one else they may have been rasied to kill steal of jzt do harm to people. people have chocies to do what he or she feel
I would have to say that the people control the culture and agree with those who said that. If culture is defined as "the social heritage of a people--those learned patterns for thinking, feeling, and acting that are transmitted from one generation to the next," then it must be controlled by people. People are the instruments in keeping cultures alive. The beliefs and practices I've learned were passed down from different people within the cultures I'm a part of.
For example, I learned the different ways in which my family operates by way of growing up around them. Those culturally taught skills and behaviors I grew up around were embedded within me. It was up to those before me to pass down those culturally taught lessons. They controlled whether or not I became rich in that knowledge by teaching and doing. These things still boil down to people controlling the culture. The ways of the culture wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those people passing it down.
My opinion has changed a couple weeks in since I been in this sociology class this semester. I was taught that I cannot look at situations on an "either" or "or" situations. In life you cannot have one and expect to come pou with two on the other end. So one plus one will make two. I belive that culture controls and shapes people and peolple control and shape culture. The reason why because in ordeer to start something you need to have afocal point, an origination which is culture. In order to be a part of the culture you have to be the culture. Some people may be that "culture" for a certain amount of time to be a part of the in-group. After a while in a cultural group the groups around you tend to make an impact on yours that the broken glass theory starts to play in effect. For example like what was said in class by expressinig our emotions with our families. Growing up in the west Indian culture the way my parents were raised has trickled down to rhe way I was raised. We grew up in a household that what ever happend in the house stayed in the house. We were being abused and we already had a reccord of DSS coming to our house. So there was seven of us and without one we felt like a group of "none." Being in that house even though we could not go outside our house and say whats going on to the older leadears. We didnt even go to our sisters and brothers and tell them how we felt deep down inside. Even though we seen it going on we never expressed what it did to us emotionally. Now hanging around my friends and other family members that have now realized that we all need to be one with eachother in a different way. So now our fsmily we have set a day a part that we will cook together instead of whoever wanted to be in the kitchen with my mom; its all of us. We talk about our days more with eachother instead of just going to our rooms. Also we could only eat in the kitchen and never the living room and when we ate in the kitchen it was only for the food and for our own space. But when we were in the living romm together we had something to talk about. When we prayed in the mornings at 6 o clock we said what was on our minds in our prayers. So the culture gave us a focal point and we mixed and matched culturtes into ours but still rooted on our culture with improvements.
Teliah I agree to what you are saying about their culture but I wonder if there is a statistic of someone in that culture disagreeing which caused them to be banished from what ever. But I think no matter what there is always someone that will want a change in something so eventhough that is what went on in that culre at the time as a child. That has made an impact on how they will raise their kids. So in turn we do end up controlling cultures because our morals change.
From Jan'el's deffinition of culture a piece of it transfered from one culture to the next. That in a way to me is like telephone in the begining it started of as one thing but in the end it changed to a whole new thing. For instance a family recipee that started off with your great, great, great grandmothers mother. The way they made it was liked and passed on down the generations but what ever wah liking to her taste buds are not neccesarily tastefull for yours. So you are going to put a lil more of this and that. So I think culture is like the game of telephone.
I would have to agree with the ladies who believes both because we are free to choose what to believe in, act, learn, and experience different cultures. Most people learn from observation. If they grew up in a family where they are very closed minded to alot of things. That child or children are going to be closed minded until they venture out an explore life. I am not saying that I know everything but I know that going to a bigger city and seeing different things got me to realize that I can not tune things that i do not believe in out. I have to be open minded and understand that others might think that some of the things that I believe in is wrong. Knowledge is power.
I agree with what Jan'el about people controling culture. Things are passed down from generation to generation and sometimes things change. But you still have the culture because as long as the people exsist there will always be beliefs and living standards. Also, by looking back to the 60's we can see a culture change because people don't believe like used to believe and some act differently. To me that is a great example of how people control culture.
I beleive that its both, culture controls people and people controls culture. Culture is defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. I believe that your culture governs how and individual acts or behaves within a particular ethnic group. I also believe that people controls cultre because it is totally up to that particular individual to practice thier culture so this is an examplke how people/individuals can control there culture. I also belive that its good for other ethnic groups to take a look at other cultures so they can fully understand why and how another ethnic group operates and this also helps erase any miscumseptions one may have.
I feel that it is both. Culture controls people because because it is their epestimology. People's culture is all they know until they choose to explore other cultures. As Brittani Agee states, people are caught up into there norms and are blind-sided to other cultures.
On the other hand, people control culture because they have the power to change it. Since we are the ones who teach our children culture we can also reestablish it.
In my oponion I feel that it is both because, without people there is no culture, and with out a culture people wouldnt have any morals or values. So you cant have one with out the other. culture is only there to define peoples action and justify there doings. for example, chinese women crush the bones in there feet and rap them up to keep there feet from growing because it is considered attractive for women to have small feet. on the other hand women in the United States do not crush there feet for attracting purposes...with out people I could not compare this culture,and with out the culture all women would have pretty feet lol!!!
I feel that it is both because as the generation passes down people mostly share the same beliefs, and the view on society. I agree with ms. bailey when stated" Everyone is born into a culture and taught that this is who you are,and that culture does not define you, but culture creates division".I also feel that certain peoples culture depends on an individual act. For example if a family has always been blount or sarcasted aboout things then most of the time the generation will follow with the same type of attitude.
Even though I agree with both teliah and jeremy's points of view, after giving it a great deal of consideration, I came to the conclusion that both people and "culture" (and by culture i mean the norms and values that have already been originally established by a number of different factors). I believe that before one can determine who controls what or what controls who, we must first understand that people are not the only factor that shape one's "culture". Location, natural resources and weather are some of the many things that can help shape a culture. Take for example the small Nigerian tribe of Benin. They are known all over Africa and beyond for their arts and crafts. Over the decades, they have honed and sharpened their clay sculpting skills, passing it down from one generation to the other. It has now become a part of them. A natural resource found in their area helped define what is now their "culture". In essence, I agree with Ja'nel said "people are the instruments that keep culture alive", but it does not necessarily mean that "people" are always the sole source/determinants of what their culture may be.
- Deja Mack I’m going to have to go with (Both) People control culture just as much as culture controls people. Using hip-hop culture for example the influence of someone like Jay-z is massive, weather you enjoy his music personally or not, Jay-z many movements such as “all black everything”, throwing up the dynasty sign, and “grown and sexy” are just a few examples that have over a very short period of time changed the way generations view hip-hop. Jay-z’s “grown and sexy”and “all black everything” appeal greatly to the fashion world, young men went from being able to walk into a club with hats and graphic tee-shirts on to button up shirts only. As an individual or a brand Jay-z has controlled this culture but he could only do this with people who support him who are a part of that culture.
I love the point that Teliah made with the Afican culture but Deja, Lolia, and Shavonna and everyone else who said both have a point so im going to go with both as well. Its understood that the culture controls most of the people, but what about the rest that arent afraid to live out side their culture? Of course we all grown up a certain way and we all believe in certain things due to our parents but they dont teach us everything. Unless we are home schooled and everything we learn is from ouer parents im sure we've all learned something from some friends in school growing up. This just means that we're not just learning from our parents but also our peers and their parents. Im not saying that whatever you learn from others is right or wrong its just something else you have to think about. We all have the freedom to think about what is morally right or wrong. We were born with brains to think for ourselves not let someone else think for us.
It's both because without people culture wouldn't have power, without culture people would be weak because we are fueled off one another. Culture is what make us similar. For example a # 1 song is number one because the majority of the culture can relate to it. The person wrote it based on everyday life which means that he or she need culture to experience it and it became popular because of the relationship between people and culture.
I feel culture controls people for the most part, because most of us have been raised by the standards or norms of our culture. The way your culture sees certain things like religion, work ethic, fathering children and discipline determine how you live your life. However I agree with Mr.Johnson because with certain things like music culture and dance culture we control it because the people put the work into them creating and performing these arts. So it's both it controls us and we control it.
In my opinion i believe that culture can control people and that people control culture as well. There are many morals and values that are established in a culture before many of us even became a member of that culture, its are natural instinct to carry out those particular morals or traits because of what we're taught in the process of growing up, so as a result the culture has controlled the person. On the other hand many people make a choice to deviate from the general norms of their culture and in some instances begin to form their own culture, this would be an example of how people control the culture. I think when people "stick by the book" in terms of following the expectations of their culture they have allowed their culture to control them, for example a traditional marriage between a man and a woman. When individuals decide to step outside the expectations of their culture, they then control it, for example same sex marriage. I think that now people feel that it is ok to be different and vere away from the "norm" so overall people are starting to control the culture more than they allow the culture to control them. La-Toya Turner
I have a question for Mr. James McIntosh...when you say "the way your culture see certain things such as religion, work ethic, fathering children, and discipline" how is that true? Some of the things like religion and discipline but the fathering children im not really sure. Is it in our culture for men not be good fathers? Im not saying that all men are not good fathers but for the most part alot of them are not especially the young men mainly. I feel like maybe there were kids who grew up without fathers in there home. If these young men see that growing up with just a single mother and how she is struggling if it just so happens that they may be having a baby at a young age they should want to be in that childs life to give the child a life he didnt get to experience with two parents being around. So what my question really should be in what part of culture do young men learn not to be good fathers? No offense to anyone!!! And this question is not just for just James...anyone can answer!!!
I feel that people can control culture and culture can control people. Its basically what your taught while growing up. Being around a particular setting or situation may cause you to think that thats the way your culture is supposed to be and there is no other way. I also feel that people influence culture more than control it. Some may say that its part of the African american culture for that everyone eat soul food. But in actuality everyone doesnt. Not everyone in one culture is brought up the same way believing the same things and having the same morals and values. I just feel it all depends on what is instilled in you as a child. Your parents may have grown up believing that its in your culture to do certain things. But also not knowing everyone of that culture. I also feel that some people do not know the true meaning of culture. Some believe that its just what everybody of that culture is doing and thats the culture. Culture is meaning, morals, values, a way of life there is more to culture than some really know.
People control culture because it only takes one person to start a trend within a culture. For example when the rapper Lil Wayne started wearing skinny leg jeans, it became very popular for "regular" people who follow rap culture to wear the same thing and start following the trend that he started for the most part. Another example of how people control culture, in some countries in Africa the eldest male in the tribe sets the standards of how to live within the tribe, and the standards that he sets for the tribe becomes a part of the tribe's culture. The same way that people control culture, culture controls people. Culture controls people by the way that they live. Culture usually determines how a person is raised. Whichever culture a person is born into, that person adapts the beliefs of that culture and starts practicing them throughout their life. For example,in the Asian culture children are raised to take care of their elders once they reach the proper age, as a result those children will raise their children to do the same thing. It'll be a never ending cycle within their culture
I think that culture controls people. I did not get to pick my culture. It was something that i was born into. I didn't choose my parents or race it was something that was choosen for me! Everything that i do from the way I dress to the food I eat is just a product of my surroundings.
I think that its a cycle within itself. For one, people make up culture. When culture is set in its pattern or ways of carrying out its wasy of life; the traditions, belief systems, and everything else within, then it sets the common ground or guideline for all to follow. I feel that people are controlled by culture but its only the people that can give culture its existence. Without the people there is no culture. But in order for a society to work, if there's no culture at all and everyone oppossed everything and didn't have common beliefs on anything that society probably wouldn't function as properly.
Culture is the social hertiage of a people. In my opinion i think that culture control people, because individuals are born in into their culture and that is how they are raised. When you are born into a culture then most of the time you live and obey by the rules of that culture even if you do not want to, because that is what you were taught when you was born. People be afraid to break the regular norms of their culture becasue that is all they know even though they might not agree with their culture beliefs and living standards. For example: the culture of Congolese, (which is a culture that developed in Africa), believe that a father should be the person that take his daughter virginity. Some of the girls that have to experience this does not agree with it, but what can they do it is their culture. Things like this is why i think culture control people because people are afraid to live outside the culture they was raised in.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the people control the culture. Why? Because without the people there would be no culture. For example people have religious beliefs and most of the time they start when that person is young. As they get older they continue to hold on to their belief system because that is how they were raised. But without the people there would be no religious beliefs to hold on to, because there would be no one there to hold on to them. So to me you really need the people to make up a culture. Without people there would not be a belief system or living standards. Also if a person doesn't like the way that their culture practice certain things they have a right to come out and be a part of a culture that they want to belong to. People set rules and standards that they are going to follow and believe. That plainly says to me that we control how we live and what we believe.
ReplyDeleteI feel like culture definitely controls people. People seem to be naive in a sense because they don't want to go outside of their "norms" because it isn't what they are use to. If we didn't have different cultures everyone would be open to doing and trying different things without thinking that its nasty or weird we wouldn't think twice about doing it because no one would have set those standards.
ReplyDeleteI AGREE WIT JEREMY IN A WAY BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY FOR US TO KNOW ABOUT A CULTURE IS THROUGH SOMEONE ELES.BUT AT THE SAME TIME ITS UP TO THE PERSON TO KNOW IF THEY WANT TO FOLLOW SOMETHING CALLED "CULTURE".THE BEST WAY TO KNOW THE ANSWER IS TO ASK YOURSELF.DO YOU FOLLOW A CULTURE?DOES IT CONRTOL YOU OR DO YOU CONTROL THE CULTURE?I THINK IM CONTROLING MY CULTURE A LITTLE I DNT FOLLOW EVERYTHING BUT I FOLLOW THE CULTURE TO SOME POINT.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion it is both. A person has the choice to except the belief's, behaviors, and ideas of their culture. Everyone is born into a culture and taught that this is who you are. I believe that culture does not define you, but i do believe that culture creates division. It seperates the poor from the rich, the young from the old, and the blacks from the whites. For example the Qin Dynasty in China esptablished the official language, and writing system throughtout china during 221 B.C. Why? this was a way for everyone to be able to communicate with one another throughout china, especially during the warring state period. This became part of China's culture that united the people of china as a whole but also isolated them from the rest of the world. In retrospec this was a good and bad thing. Not all of the people agreed with this but when you put your power in the hands of an emperior you have given up your right to think and decide for yourself. So in other words the people create the culture that they live in, and without the people there would be no culture. But sometimes we allow the culture that we created to take control of us, and even destroy us.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I strongly believe that culture control people. In order a for culture to exist, it needs people to be the symbol of that culture. The culture does the following to people control what they eat, believe, raise families, and etc. Culture teaches and shows what that person is to do and how to do it. Culture is also a sense direction for those who are in the same culture there is some type of relation and similarity. If people were to control the culture how would they get people to be in that culture. For example, there are cultures that eat certain foods or have multiples of marriages. Everyone person is not going to agree to be apart of that culture.
ReplyDeleteI believe both. the reason being is because people have the right to control there behavor an they can choose what they want to do in life. culture does not define you you define your self for example i grew up beliving to do things a certain way in life now for some one else they may have been rasied to kill steal of jzt do harm to people. people have chocies to do what he or she feel
ReplyDeleteI would have to say that the people control the culture and agree with those who said that. If culture is defined as "the social heritage of a people--those learned patterns for thinking, feeling, and acting that are transmitted from one generation to the next," then it must be controlled by people. People are the instruments in keeping cultures alive. The beliefs and practices I've learned were passed down from different people within the cultures I'm a part of.
ReplyDeleteFor example, I learned the different ways in which my family operates by way of growing up around them. Those culturally taught skills and behaviors I grew up around were embedded within me. It was up to those before me to pass down those culturally taught lessons. They controlled whether or not I became rich in that knowledge by teaching and doing. These things still boil down to people controlling the culture. The ways of the culture wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those people passing it down.
My opinion has changed a couple weeks in since I been in this sociology class this semester. I was taught that I cannot look at situations on an "either" or "or" situations. In life you cannot have one and expect to come pou with two on the other end. So one plus one will make two. I belive that culture controls and shapes people and peolple control and shape culture. The reason why because in ordeer to start something you need to have afocal point, an origination which is culture. In order to be a part of the culture you have to be the culture. Some people may be that "culture" for a certain amount of time to be a part of the in-group. After a while in a cultural group the groups around you tend to make an impact on yours that the broken glass theory starts to play in effect. For example like what was said in class by expressinig our emotions with our families. Growing up in the west Indian culture the way my parents were raised has trickled down to rhe way I was raised. We grew up in a household that what ever happend in the house stayed in the house. We were being abused and we already had a reccord of DSS coming to our house. So there was seven of us and without one we felt like a group of "none." Being in that house even though we could not go outside our house and say whats going on to the older leadears. We didnt even go to our sisters and brothers and tell them how we felt deep down inside. Even though we seen it going on we never expressed what it did to us emotionally. Now hanging around my friends and other family members that have now realized that we all need to be one with eachother in a different way. So now our fsmily we have set a day a part that we will cook together instead of whoever wanted to be in the kitchen with my mom; its all of us. We talk about our days more with eachother instead of just going to our rooms. Also we could only eat in the kitchen and never the living room and when we ate in the kitchen it was only for the food and for our own space. But when we were in the living romm together we had something to talk about. When we prayed in the mornings at 6 o clock we said what was on our minds in our prayers. So the culture gave us a focal point and we mixed and matched culturtes into ours but still rooted on our culture with improvements.
ReplyDeleteTeliah I agree to what you are saying about their culture but I wonder if there is a statistic of someone in that culture disagreeing which caused them to be banished from what ever. But I think no matter what there is always someone that will want a change in something so eventhough that is what went on in that culre at the time as a child. That has made an impact on how they will raise their kids. So in turn we do end up controlling cultures because our morals change.
ReplyDeleteFrom Jan'el's deffinition of culture a piece of it transfered from one culture to the next. That in a way to me is like telephone in the begining it started of as one thing but in the end it changed to a whole new thing. For instance a family recipee that started off with your great, great, great grandmothers mother. The way they made it was liked and passed on down the generations but what ever wah liking to her taste buds are not neccesarily tastefull for yours. So you are going to put a lil more of this and that. So I think culture is like the game of telephone.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with the ladies who believes both because we are free to choose what to believe in, act, learn, and experience different cultures. Most people learn from observation. If they grew up in a family where they are very closed minded to alot of things. That child or children are going to be closed minded until they venture out an explore life. I am not saying that I know everything but I know that going to a bigger city and seeing different things got me to realize that I can not tune things that i do not believe in out. I have to be open minded and understand that others might think that some of the things that I believe in is wrong. Knowledge is power.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Jan'el about people controling culture. Things are passed down from generation to generation and sometimes things change. But you still have the culture because as long as the people exsist there will always be beliefs and living standards. Also, by looking back to the 60's we can see a culture change because people don't believe like used to believe and some act differently. To me that is a great example of how people control culture.
ReplyDeleteI beleive that its both, culture controls people and people controls culture. Culture is defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. I believe that your culture governs how and individual acts or behaves within a particular ethnic group. I also believe that people controls cultre because it is totally up to that particular individual to practice thier culture so this is an examplke how people/individuals can control there culture. I also belive that its good for other ethnic groups to take a look at other cultures so they can fully understand why and how another ethnic group operates and this also helps erase any miscumseptions one may have.
ReplyDeleteI feel that it is both. Culture controls people because because it is their epestimology. People's culture is all they know until they choose to explore other cultures. As Brittani Agee states, people are caught up into there norms and are blind-sided to other cultures.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, people control culture because they have the power to change it. Since we are the ones who teach our children culture we can also reestablish it.
In my oponion I feel that it is both because, without people there is no culture, and with out a culture people wouldnt have any morals or values. So you cant have one with out the other. culture is only there to define peoples action and justify there doings. for example, chinese women crush the bones in there feet and rap them up to keep there feet from growing because it is considered attractive for women to have small feet. on the other hand women in the United States do not crush there feet for attracting purposes...with out people I could not compare this culture,and with out the culture all women would have pretty feet lol!!!
ReplyDeleteI feel that it is both because as the generation passes down people mostly share the same beliefs, and the view on society. I agree with ms. bailey when stated" Everyone is born into a culture and taught that this is who you are,and that culture does not define you, but culture creates division".I also feel that certain peoples culture depends on an individual act. For example if a family has always been blount or sarcasted aboout things then most of the time the generation will follow with the same type of attitude.
ReplyDeleteLolia Kienka....
ReplyDeleteEven though I agree with both teliah and jeremy's points of view, after giving it a great deal of consideration, I came to the conclusion that both people and "culture" (and by culture i mean the norms and values that have already been originally established by a number of different factors).
I believe that before one can determine who controls what or what controls who, we must first understand that people are not the only factor that shape one's "culture". Location, natural resources and weather are some of the many things that can help shape a culture.
Take for example the small Nigerian tribe of Benin. They are known all over Africa and beyond for their arts and crafts. Over the decades, they have honed and sharpened their clay sculpting skills, passing it down from one generation to the other. It has now become a part of them. A natural resource found in their area helped define what is now their "culture". In essence, I agree with Ja'nel said "people are the instruments that keep culture alive", but it does not necessarily mean that "people" are always the sole source/determinants of what their culture may be.
- Deja Mack
ReplyDeleteI’m going to have to go with (Both) People control culture just as much as culture controls people. Using hip-hop culture for example the influence of someone like Jay-z is massive, weather you enjoy his music personally or not, Jay-z many movements such as “all black everything”, throwing up the dynasty sign, and “grown and sexy” are just a few examples that have over a very short period of time changed the way generations view hip-hop. Jay-z’s “grown and sexy”and “all black everything” appeal greatly to the fashion world, young men went from being able to walk into a club with hats and graphic tee-shirts on to button up shirts only. As an individual or a brand Jay-z has controlled this culture but he could only do this with people who support him who are a part of that culture.
I love the point that Teliah made with the Afican culture but Deja, Lolia, and Shavonna and everyone else who said both have a point so im going to go with both as well. Its understood that the culture controls most of the people, but what about the rest that arent afraid to live out side their culture? Of course we all grown up a certain way and we all believe in certain things due to our parents but they dont teach us everything. Unless we are home schooled and everything we learn is from ouer parents im sure we've all learned something from some friends in school growing up. This just means that we're not just learning from our parents but also our peers and their parents. Im not saying that whatever you learn from others is right or wrong its just something else you have to think about. We all have the freedom to think about what is morally right or wrong. We were born with brains to think for ourselves not let someone else think for us.
ReplyDeleteIt's both because without people culture wouldn't have power, without culture people would be weak because we are fueled off one another. Culture is what make us similar. For example a # 1 song is number one because the majority of the culture can relate to it. The person wrote it based on everyday life which means that he or she need culture to experience it and it became popular because of the relationship between people and culture.
ReplyDeleteI feel culture controls people for the most part, because most of us have been raised by the standards or norms of our culture. The way your culture sees certain things like religion, work ethic, fathering children and discipline determine how you live your life. However I agree with Mr.Johnson because with certain things like music culture and dance culture we control it because the people put the work into them creating and performing these arts. So it's both it controls us and we control it.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion i believe that culture can control people and that people control culture as well. There are many morals and values that are established in a culture before many of us even became a member of that culture, its are natural instinct to carry out those particular morals or traits because of what we're taught in the process of growing up, so as a result the culture has controlled the person. On the other hand many people make a choice to deviate from the general norms of their culture and in some instances begin to form their own culture, this would be an example of how people control the culture. I think when people "stick by the book" in terms of following the expectations of their culture they have allowed their culture to control them, for example a traditional marriage between a man and a woman. When individuals decide to step outside the expectations of their culture, they then control it, for example same sex marriage. I think that now people feel that it is ok to be different and vere away from the "norm" so overall people are starting to control the culture more than they allow the culture to control them. La-Toya Turner
ReplyDeleteI have a question for Mr. James McIntosh...when you say "the way your culture see certain things such as religion, work ethic, fathering children, and discipline" how is that true? Some of the things like religion and discipline but the fathering children im not really sure. Is it in our culture for men not be good fathers? Im not saying that all men are not good fathers but for the most part alot of them are not especially the young men mainly. I feel like maybe there were kids who grew up without fathers in there home. If these young men see that growing up with just a single mother and how she is struggling if it just so happens that they may be having a baby at a young age they should want to be in that childs life to give the child a life he didnt get to experience with two parents being around. So what my question really should be in what part of culture do young men learn not to be good fathers? No offense to anyone!!! And this question is not just for just James...anyone can answer!!!
ReplyDeleteI feel that people can control culture and culture can control people. Its basically what your taught while growing up. Being around a particular setting or situation may cause you to think that thats the way your culture is supposed to be and there is no other way. I also feel that people influence culture more than control it. Some may say that its part of the African american culture for that everyone eat soul food. But in actuality everyone doesnt. Not everyone in one culture is brought up the same way believing the same things and having the same morals and values. I just feel it all depends on what is instilled in you as a child. Your parents may have grown up believing that its in your culture to do certain things. But also not knowing everyone of that culture. I also feel that some people do not know the true meaning of culture. Some believe that its just what everybody of that culture is doing and thats the culture. Culture is meaning, morals, values, a way of life there is more to culture than some really know.
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ReplyDeletePeople control culture because it only takes one person to start a trend within a culture. For example when the rapper Lil Wayne started wearing skinny leg jeans, it became very popular for "regular" people who follow rap culture to wear the same thing and start following the trend that he started for the most part. Another example of how people control culture, in some countries in Africa the eldest male in the tribe sets the standards of how to live within the tribe, and the standards that he sets for the tribe becomes a part of the tribe's culture. The same way that people control culture, culture controls people. Culture controls people by the way that they live. Culture usually determines how a person is raised. Whichever culture a person is born into, that person adapts the beliefs of that culture and starts practicing them throughout their life. For example,in the Asian culture children are raised to take care of their elders once they reach the proper age, as a result those children will raise their children to do the same thing. It'll be a never ending cycle within their culture
I think that culture controls people. I did not get to pick my culture. It was something that i was born into. I didn't choose my parents or race it was something that was choosen for me! Everything that i do from the way I dress to the food I eat is just a product of my surroundings.
ReplyDeleteI think that its a cycle within itself. For one, people make up culture. When culture is set in its pattern or ways of carrying out its wasy of life; the traditions, belief systems, and everything else within, then it sets the common ground or guideline for all to follow. I feel that people are controlled by culture but its only the people that can give culture its existence. Without the people there is no culture. But in order for a society to work, if there's no culture at all and everyone oppossed everything and didn't have common beliefs on anything that society probably wouldn't function as properly.
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