1. Culture

2. How do you define a person?EQ

3. Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
Today, in the United States as in other countries populated largely by immigrants, the culture is influenced by the many groups of people that now make up the country.
What are the different ways in which culture can be different?
What are the positives and negatives to this idea?
What is Culture?

4. What Defines a Person?

5. Categorizes humans by heredity, physical characteristics, geographic ancestry
Examples
White
Black
Asian
Pacific Islander
It’s what you bubble in on a form
Race

6. A group of people whose members identify with each other through a common heritage often consisting of a common ideology that stresses common ancestry
Examples:
African American
Kurd
Arab
French
Not everyone has an ethnicity they identify with, especially in diverse countries
Ethnicity

7. Nationality A country of allegiance or national identity Examples:
American
Chinese
Colombian
French
This can be the same as your ethnicity
“If there is a war, who would you fight for?”
Nationality

8. A group of people who adhere to the same religious beliefs
Examples:
Jews
Sikhs
Buddhists
Mormons
Within world religions there are specific divisions
Some ethnicities have specific religious groups within them, although some are all one religion
Some religious groups are tribal or very specific
Religious Group

9. Surface Culture (observable) Deep Culture (not observable)
Cultural Iceberg
Surface Culture (observable)
Music
Games/Sports
Visual Arts
Architecture
Dress
Language
Dancing
Greetings
Holidays
Celebrations
Food
Drama/Storytelling
Social structures
Deep Culture (not observable)
Work ethic
Values
Cultural Iceberg
Body Language
Humor
Courtship & Marriage
Gender Roles
Religious Beliefs
Child Raising
Emotions
Notions of Modesty