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“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.”

May Two Values Culture Results Practice Influence Example Habit Exercise Patterns Desirable Undesirable Two Cultures

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.”

Way Littles Culture Community Media Fields Return Understood Patterns Norm Unified Tribalism Cohesion Electronic Media

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.”

Beautiful Culture Patterns Various Superiors Inferiors Mosaics

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.”

Culture Patterns Myth Seeds Ritual Crystals

Author:Starhawk

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.”

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.”

Values Culture Interest Groups Awareness Members Degrees Importance Patterns Assumption Behaviour Frame Of Reference

Book:Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning

Source: Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning