Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Week 15 #3
Self-image affects communication. " I" is that people are birth with, but " me " is affected by environment, family, and culture.Ting-Toomey defines that people grow up and raise in their culture. The individual -identity is stand for and related to the group-identity. the individual norm, behavior, and understanding of social value is tied to the membership in the culture group. For example, one of my friend who is Chinese, but she was adapted by an England couple when she was a baby. She grew up in London. even though she looks like a Chinese, she behaves totally an Englander; she doesn`t have any Chinese norm and culture in her mind. Therefore, " me " is influenced in the environment, culture, and family.
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I agree with most of your comments, however, I believe that the genetic predisposition that everyone has is unescapable, regardless of environmental intervention. Just imagine someone who comes from a family of alcoholics, in which every single member of the family has an maladaptive behavior of drinking to excess and addiction. If that child is removed from the home, he or she most likely would still be an alcoholic, if they ever began to drink, as that would be there trigger for that gene. That leads to the question of a genetic basis for culture. What exactly does it mean to be chinese? What does it mean to be American? Is there a difference in the genes of different cultures? These questions are stil relegated to individual families rather than entire cultures, but it does beg the question.
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