How Culture affects your Personality

--- Invest in yourself ---

[madyati]

This is a rare topic, hardly talked by anyone, you are doing a really good job, these videos inspired me to make my own contents.

[b.b.wilders]

I'm ethnically Russian but grew up in Belgium around only Belgians. My parents, who migrated here, also integrated from day one and taught me Belgian values, traditions and lifestyle as much as they could so I'd never feel like an outsider. But what happened was that everyone else around me labelled me 'Russian' because of my name and my speech impediment (that was assumed came from my "Russian" upbringing but, plot twist, I barely speak nor understand Russian) and my shyness (I didn't speak nor reacted much to other kids, so they'd assume I didn't understand that they were saying).

In conclusion, I'm okay with societies actively embracing multiculturalism, but when you start pointing out everyone with a foreign name to teach other children about foreigners, it hurts the child in particular in the long run. Not every foreigner grew up with "their" culture and are not meant to think that they should. I'm now 20 and have finally started to be stubborn, so when people ask me about my 'homecountry' (even though I've explicitly pointed out that I don't have anything to do with Russia), I speak about Belgium. Because that's my home country, where I grew up in, where I feel comfortable... Not Russia. The only time I visited there was for my grandmother, not for my "yearly visit to my entire family and live there for 2 months" (multiple "Belgian" people have openly expressed this assumption to me when I told them about my vacation to that ONE TIME in Russia). The culture in Eastern Europe are not the same as I grew up in and know and will teach my future children. People should learn that.

So diversity =/= "every foreigner is different and doesn't belong here so we should "learn" about them and label them explicitly even though it's not necessary so we should make them feel even more alienated than they are. Yes, let's ask this person every time to say something in "their" language and ask where "they come from" and how often they travel to "their" country." Let them be and accept them how they are. And not only if they actually live with a different cultural upbringing, but also when they live the same way. Accept that certain foreigners might live in your country and are fully integrated like non-foreigners. They exist too.

[studyme-selftaughtlife]

A lot of our *core values* and *beliefs, * that could be changed, comes from our *social circle* within our friends and family.

[littlea.g.]

As a person who learns things slowly, it was hard to listen and watch at the same time without repeating the video again and again to understand but thanks. It really helped me with my assignment :))

[RealThomasHyldig]

I come from a collectivist environment and I did grow up around people telling me to look out for everyone. Which I partly think is alright, but in the end there is only one. You.

[sbebrainy]

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it

[ayushmourya]

Yes in Indian culture a lot of people emphasis on family than individual. Our parents
follow something called "I take care of you when your young you take care of me when I am old".

[hanabanana]

Thank you I am learning a lot!
This is what school should teach!


Individual culture
Prioritize self-improvement
Independent and self-reliant
Weaker in team collaboration

Collectivist
Needs of the group come first
(the group: family or team or nation)
Extremely close to each other
Brings about US VS. THEM mindset

[IntermarkGroupAgency]

Nice points! One thing that we have been thinking about is how population density might relate to individualism/collectivism, with a push toward collectivism in more dense populations.

[titlespree]

Your culture can affect you, but you also have a choice to not let that happen.

[aboutmyfathersbusiness]

"There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, art, civilizations, these are mortal and their lives are to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals which we work with, joke with, marry, snub and exploit immortal horrors or everlasting splendors."-C.S. Lewis

[al_temuri]

Each end of the rope must be held equally. Extremism in anything can cause the downfall of a society whether scientifically or morally.

[ibrahiemmohamed]

Islam is in some ways conservative yes, however it is far from Xenophobic since all that is required to be a muslim is that you have faith in the religion coincidentally the first person to give the call of prayer at a mosque was an African ex-slave. Moving on to the idea of questioning is not allowed, in Islam there is a quote from the Koran that states "Seek Knowledge From Cradle To Grave" which means essentially that you should always question and seek improvement of yourself. Generally I wouldn't care to type a comment like this out however I do feel that if you are going to categorise things like religions it is best to do your research. I wish I could advocate for Catholicism, Judaism and Shintoism but I do not know nearly enough to do so. Before anyone thinks I am offended the truth is I like content that factual and not based upon an opinion or preconceived notion.

[lavayuki]

I'm from Ireland, now live in the UK and I'd say we are more individualist here but teamwork is still a big thing at work. People are very open here to most things and the news is rampant with politics and brexit these days

[ossen]

*Personality is definitely affected by the habitat.*
Personality is never static and changes as a means to adaptation to new circumstances or surroundings.

[santhoshsrinivasagan]

I'm an Indian and was born into Hinduism, who grew up learning all cultural values of hinduism
Let me tell u something
some of the points you said between 5:00 and 5:30 contradicts to what is being taught here
Indian are not open to changes
gender inequality is at extreme in India (not being proud abt it obviously 🙄 )
Children are definitely not allowed to question authority about anything not just teachers
But we are more tolerant to Diversity and more politically engaged.

[MahiMuntasir]

I am watching this because i don't have a personality and that's why I don't have friends either. Personality makes me feel like we are characters of video game and makes me believe we are created by God who made us to follow a certain algorithm. And everything is controlled by God. We are not who we are. We are those whom society makes us believe we are. I know It's very complex but It's freaking true.

[calgoulden]

If collectivist cultures are so compassionate and people are close to each other, then why is tiger parenting culture such an extreme problem in these Least compassionate parenting style

[WplywyKultury]

The influence of culture is a very complex system, there are external and internal elements, including not only genetic but also emotional experiences.

It is important to learn about your possibilities but also about your blockages, where they come from and what impact they have on future decisions. I notice one thing in my account, although we are just starting out, that knowledge scares people, they prefer to watch "bouncing boobs" than face knowledge, such a case is the episode about childbirth, many women struggle with the topic of pregnancy, sometimes with the decision to have a child and sometimes with the effects after birth. There are many myths surrounding this topic, which we debunk in our discussion. Despite this, it does not arouse any interest, although the topic is important because everyone was born once.

Welcome, it's worth turning on the English translation and I'm curious about your opinions.

[leadershiphelpdesk]

Basically, you are "nobody" due to the fact that culture turned "that little light of mine" into something else.
Listen to Jackson Browne's "The Pretender". Most all of us "spend" our entire lives chasing everyone else's dreams.