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Welcome to you see 4050 this course as you know focuses on cultural perspective this is your 1st recorded Powerpoint of you should go through the entire presentation to my commentary and then follow the instructions in the to Will for your next today's presentation is about culture and the cultural self of teachers as well as the ways that we build knowledge around culture so here you will see an example that we often use when we talk about culture and this is an iceberg I would like for you to take a moment to just kind of look at this model you can possibly courting if you'd like but you can really kind of take it in but determine what it is that you notice about the iceberg so we're going to come back to that I spoke in just a 2nd but I want to kind of walk you through a couple of interesting components of the definition of culture culture can be defined as beliefs norms assumptions that use and worldviews we know that norms are like ideas opinions perspective that many people hold and if you don't hold those norms then you are kind of viewed as outside of them in that opposite has in conversation cultural identity is a group that has a shared system of meanings and symbols and norms and rules for conduct so maybe you could take a moment to think about various cultural identities that are prevalent in our society right now you might say that professors have a cultural identity and you could definitely list of.

The shared systems of meaning symbols norms and conduct purpose so for example on graduation day professors typically dress in regalia. A long rope with big long puffy sleeves has stripes the shoulders and around the cuff there's a mortar board that professors wear and they process into graduation they typically sit in a certain area and they are often addressed by the president of the institution in the comments for graduation day so that is like some of the symbols and the meanings of graduation is wrapped up in the faculty and the professors to do so cultural identity is not always just race and gender and social economic status it's also other cultural groups and as you know we are all members of multiple cultural groups.

Again cultural identity also defines who a person is culturally and as I just mentioned each individual is a unique collection of various cultural membership some cultural memberships will be more dominant than others in terms of what cultural beliefs attitudes practices and world views are being expressed in daily living so here we can look at this ice berg model a little more in detail and you can see above the surface we have like artifacts and behaviors and those are things that are very easy to see very visible so you could look at an individual and determine some of those artifacts of their culture and some of their behaviors.

In the case that I just gave you of the professors and faculty that attend graduation artifacts would be their dress you know they wear very special regalia no one else in the world with where's regalia that faculty wear at graduation and their behavior you know would be that they all sit together in a certain area they listen very attentively.

And depending on what's happening at the institutions you know they might also engage in acts of rebellion or subversion at graduation we've heard a faculty who. Various people the president or the speaker they have some sort of conflict we've heard of faculty that. Protest silently during a graduation if the speaker doesn't meet with their approval.

And so all of these things are very visible to us under the surface we have other norms beliefs assumptions and values that relate to culture and these are out of consciousness and in out of our awareness more carefully at that now so this again is still the iceberg concept of culture we see that 9 tenths of an iceberg is below the surface is the same is true for cultures roughly.

Who dress music all of these artifacts are but of the surface very easily seen the emotional level is very low. And then when we go below the surface the level of emotion ality increases. We have these unspoken rules. Of courtesy and personal space. I contact there are certain cultures where you must make eye contact with an adult or with someone you know as your superior out of respect.

Give me their other cultures where you absolutely keep your eyes on the ground you do not make eye contact with adults or people. And so if those cultural rules are broken in some way then we might have high levels of emotion and that is considered shallow culture when we go into deeper culture we see things like tolerance of physical pain.

Attitudes towards sex attitudes towards class and occupation in kinship and when these cultural norms are broken or flouted that emotional levels can be very So I'd like for you to pass the video after I ask you this question and reflect on it. Ask So tell me what your culture says about.

One element that you find at the surface one element that you find in shallow culture and one element that you found this will come up again at some point this semester so you want to be sure that you've given this some thought and you can articulate a response to what your culture says about surface.

Culture shallow culture in the right going to keep on movin. So here. We again I'm going to now give you some images to help support your learning and deepen your understanding of culture these are again values norms and worldviews that are adopted by any group of people and passed on from one generation to the next that is also called socialization culture characterizes how we develop meaning and relate with others so when you see this image of the deep south peanut pie certain ideas are going to come to mind for you based on your your values norms and worldview and what is that like what comes to mind when you see this image you see the word Deep South when you see the characterization of this baby when you think of the time frame in which this image evokes for us what is the culture of the Deep South.

We also have groups that are known as subcultures some of you might be able to identify this organization and you will have a certain perspective about this group but a subculture is a social group that has adopted a shared perspective and lifestyle that's different from the cultural mainstream so if anyone is an Omega or a nose Omegas you might be familiar with some of the.

Some of the perspectives and lifestyle choices that individuals within this group make and represent and. They're very distinct from other groups we can also think of other examples that provide some here Harley Davidson riders golfers quilters extent or a maybe you can think of one or 2 subcultures that you might belong.

So the cultural deficit model. Is. Just how one culture or ways of living arts appear year to other cultures. That we view of them that way I am better than others we also sometimes call this as a centrism where we believe our individual culture is the center of the world and everything else is some deviation from that.

But these cultures are viewed as inferior so when we think of the deficit Ok deficit means there isn't enough of something there's a lack of something and so when we engage in a cult cultural deficit model it means that we're responsible for individuals developing cultural biases and discrimination towards individuals of other cultures so an example of a cultural deficit model is to say something like Why do people eat with it and that might be in relation to people who eat with chopsticks those cultures of people with chopsticks that means that an individual is doing their culture the Piri the culturally different model says that others one's culture and ways of living are equally viable or equally as valuable to other cultures provided that no one is so there's no security already there just thinking of cultures as different so an example is I eat with a fork Sam eat with chopsticks we both eat our get our grub on so there's no value associated with which one is better or worse or weird or different or.

It's just. We were both able to eat with a fork and Sammy's with chopsticks So hopefully that example is clear for you. So there are other examples of. Culture and we're going to look at a few of them one of them is related to gender and so. The image of an individual that individual has as possessing feminine in or masculine characteristics so gender and you know or as I hope you know in our learning in other classes gender is a cultural construction it is not something that we're born with we're not born with the gender we're actually born with the sex and that relates to our biological parts but gender is all based on the way that society tells us we should act based on our sexual parts based on our biology that men have a penis men should be men should not cry boys should not wear pink girls should not play with trucks.

All of the the latter after I said men have a penis that's a biological. Characterization but because they have a penis and they are man society tells them that they should act in certain ways. But the gender construction is what we're told. All men have some so called them in traits in all women have some so-called masculine traits and we may show these different traits that different times but social structures.

Reinforce ideas about how we should act based on the biological parts that we're born with to see a man cry in the way that we're seeing in this image it looks to us because society has told us. That's part of gender construction that mentioned that right Ok. We are also going to look at race very briefly we know that race has no biological or physiological basis.

For many of you that might be a surprise because we're often taught to think that if you can take a blood test and tell if someone is black or white or Asian or Latin x. that is not true the characterization of individuals who share certain physical features such as skin color nose with hair texture eye color eye shape.

Has no basis in biology so you can't look at someone who is of one race and say that everyone has the same hair shape or act color or facial features and you so there is no basis in biology the origins of race are strictly historical and cultural and historical and social implications.

Of race on certain racial minorities dictates their outcomes in life so even though race is not real it doesn't have a biological basis the effects of race on the life of a person are very real we know that black and brown people have. Diminished access to health care and that they are 6 times more likely to die of coke at 19 for example.

And so those implications of race like the higher death rate are very real even though race has no biological basis. The next idea I want to tackle with you all is ethnic identity this is very different from race race has more to do with like your features how you look and ethnicity have to do with where your people come from so the group of people typically associate it with a nation of ancestry so you might look at this group of people and know that they come from Western Europe and they're doing a certain type of dance and their ethnic identity would be Western European or Serbian if we want to drill down to the country it refers ethnicity refers to their alterable.

Heritage customs traditions and rituals and that all relate to where a person comes from as opposed to how they look which is related to race then we have a social class. Or it's also called s e s which is socio. Me socio economic status. We have called it in the past we've called it social class and this is the way that we characterize people based on some combination of education and income with the latter often being imprecise So take a moment to look at the cartoon in our our powerpoint to get a sense of how the role that income plays in social economic status or.

Sexual orientation relates to who you are who you love so your sexual affection or attraction to another person. And so you could have a heterosexual orientation a homo sexual orientation a sexual orientation and a sexual orientation and now more recently we hear of can sexual orientation. And maybe many others Ok so sexual orientation identity is a cultural group.

Of people we also have religious and spiritual identity as cultural groups we know that religion or spirituality relates to a concept that you believe that there is something bigger than you that influences or controls your outcomes in life. And here this image you know has many different religious groups national identity relates to your country of origin or of the country where you spent most of your life also overlaps with your ethnic identity related to national identity as a regional I did the and that is the part of the country or continent that you come from and generational identity this is gotten a lot of attention recently with people to really mentioning like the different generations Boomers and Generation x. and generation y. in the lineal 6 cetera these are just some images that kind of reinforce the different generations you know we have.

Baby boomers here who who were born during World War One and then children who came along after that generation x. and y. the previous picture was like a picture of lineal. We also have culturally different identities related to other aspects of who people are. Adoption disabilities traumatic experiences all of these are related to.

The experiences that people have in life or the choices that people make. And reflect who you are in significant ways so oftentimes now in particular in the l g b t Q community we have folks who identify as queer instead of gay and so that is a culturally different identity where they are reclaiming some language around.

Homosexuality that brings them into a different cultural category the same is true with how black identified people may claim or not claim to use certain language around their cultural identity and so. This is by choice and this type of cultural identification. Tell people who you are in the significant So now we should think about why it's important for us to explore cultural identity it really helps us to understand the origins of our beliefs attitudes traditions and cultural practices as a future teacher it will really help you to think about how you can connect with your students.

How you might misunderstand who they are if you have some cultural mismatches it makes it easier to have respect for the cultural differences we encounter with others when we realize that we are different in cultural ways it enhanced is our personal wellness and our mental health because we avoid.

Hiding or ignoring some of our cultural membership and it helps us to involve even evolve as a person by challenging and causing us to think about our current beliefs and attitudes so when we are aware that we too. Are cultural beings then when we see manifestations of culture in other people it helps us to connect to that.

There are some barriers to connecting across culture right in so one of those is a rich white racial identity added to theory this was created by Helms in 1994 and this theory says that white identified people minimize cultural minority cultural differences. I'm sorry so the last part of this presentation allows us to think about our individual cultural identity and I want you to do this on your own before you move on to any other activity I want you to think about your family's.

Structure this is your cultural family is it patriarchal cool is it matriarchal is it egalitarianism and provide an example.