The Product of Culture

Welcome to my blog! As part of Cultural Psychology, a course at St.FX University, I will regularly blog about the impacts of culture and how it plays an important role in shaping us as humans. I am a product of my own culture. What that statement means to me is that culture, the sharing of ideas, beliefs, thoughts and technology, has morphed me into a unique individual. I have learned from the culture that I am surrounded from. My friends, my family, my peers, and even the media has passed on ideas and beliefs that ultimately affect my behavior. What makes me a unique individual is the fact that I have completely different experiences then someone else half way around the world. For example,through my own culture I identify with marriage and relationships as something that is done independently of myself through which I make my own choices as to whom I develop a relation with. On the other hand, another individual may view marriage and relationships as something that is done by the choice of her parents, a relation that is chosen for herself. These are two very different ways of viewing marriage, but are both completely normal and meaningful to each respective person who holds those beliefs. So what exactly is my culture? What is the final product that culture has shaped me to be? I am a product who is a independent woman, one of choice, who attends university, who likes poutines, who wants to own a dog, get married and have children, live in a rural area, celebrate holidays with family, travel the world and watch my children grow into their own unique self's . These are a few of my ideals, my preferences, my goals, my beliefs, and ultimately the product of my own culture.