6/03/2021 Week 7: Culture and Psychology

 

Many aspects of how we behave and think have to do not with our personal life experiences or our genetics, but with the culture in which we are immersed in. Although Western culture predominates today, in many places the cultural border means that tribes living in the same region do not understand each other by language or by customs and mentality.

Psychology with culture tries to deal with the human mind based on diversity and with the cultural heritage that we receive. Culture encompasses the clothes we wear, the language we speak, the food we eat, even the way we greet each other, how we think, feel even the way we relate to each other that is why there is a very strong connection between culture and psychology, culture on all aspects of our behavior, cognition, and emotion.

In Africa, especially in Madagascar, it is considered that women who give birth to twins are cursed and must kill one of them, or give them up for adoption, even leave home, It is very sad what that mother has to experience from an emotional point of view, but we can only be respected since those beliefs are part of the culture. That is why in our classrooms with students from different parts of the world we must be very respectful, introducing the vocabulary of the subject that we are going to teach, but accepting the experiences that each one of them brings.