Monday, May 6, 2013
COM 250 / Wk. #6 Discussion: Cultural Difference in Parenting Practice
Child-parent relationship is different among cultures. Can you offer a reasonable explanation to this difference? Again, how dialectical thinking can help us to find a "middle path" approach so each society can overcome its shortcomings in child-rearing practice?
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The text defines intercultural communication as "any communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different". This is potentially literally every possible conversation between two or more individuals due to the fact that we are all unique. As individuals, our experiences, upbringing, exposure to other cultures, genetics, environmental factors, and a myriad of additional inputs influence how we view and interact with the world around us. The text further defines cultural influences as differences in age, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, and socioeconomic class. Another piece to this puzzle is that America is a culturally diverse region. This diversity continues to expand as more and more immigrants arrive and as a result, culture can be "fine tuned" to the point of an individualistic culture. The wide range of differences between two given individuals can span decades of cultural influences and understandings.
ReplyDeleteSo, can you specify how people of different cultures practice parenting differently? And is there a middle path to reconcile the two extremes (permissive vs. restrictive) regarding parenting?
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