1). Do you agree with anthropologist Ruth Benedict that we are "creatures of our culture" and that our habits, beliefs, and impossibilities are shaped by our culture? If so, how can we break through the limits of our cultures?
I do agree with anthropologist Ruth Benedict and that we are all “ creatures of our culture.” I also agree how Anthropologist Ruth benedict states that, “By the time someone is able to talk, he or she is a creature of his culture.” I also have some doubts on what she also states regarding how even from the time we are first born, the customs into which we are born in shape our behavior. The reason why I might disagree is mostly because babies aren’t able to store long term memory into their brains let alone have any kind of understanding of the question..who are we? But, as we get older and the child begins to speak, they become “part of the environment” made by humans or in the child’s case, made by its parents. The child becomes a mirror image of its parent’s culture identity. The way we break through the limits of our culture can be through assimilation, acculturation, and even intercultural communication.
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