What Culture Is and Is Not

Cultural, Universal or Personal?

Task 1: Fill in the blanks: Cultural, Universal or Personal?

All people share basic needs, emotions and social practices (food&shelter, love, friendship) These are ______________

In addition, we all learn a set of behaviors and beliefs from the community where we grow up (etiquette and manners, the way we celebrate holidays, what we expect from our friends). These are __________________

Finally, each individual within a culture has a different personality, different preferences and different talents (liking to be alone, not liking chocolate, liking math class the best). These are ________________________


Task 2. Write C, U, or P to indicate whether these behaviors are cultural, universal or personal.

____ Giving gifts

____ Considering a gift of an even number of flowers unlucky

____ Preferring to receive pink roses

____ Eating with a knife and fork

____ Not liking vanilla ice cream

____ Eating regularly (or at least wanting to eat regularly and to be free of hunger)

____ A woman offering her seat on a bus to an elderly man who looks very tired

____ Being polite

____ Burping during or after meal as a compliment to the hostess

____ Feeling sad when a loved one dies

____ Wearing white mourning clothes after the death of a loved one

____ A widow growing tired of wearing mourning clothes for a year and a day


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