Blog 10:

At the beginning of this course I wanted to learn more about cultures, so that I could better appreciate them. Through these last few months I did just that. I was able to see how other people live and grow up, which made me very fortunate for everything that I have. Academically I have grown when it comes to my writing. My attitude about cross cultural has stayed the same. I am still as excited as ever to learn more about cultures. I feel like I could have better achieved the course objective by being more proactive and not waiting until last minute to do work. If I took this class again I would have put more effort into my work. From this course I have learned that not everyone is from the same background and you should understand that and not expect them to be the same as you. This is a skill that I can really use in my professional life.

Blog 9:

I this course I have learned a lot, but there are a few things that have stuck out more than others. This semester I have learned a lot about myself and how I want to do more traveling so I can experience more cultures. I really learned how some people are really not accepting of other cultures. The last thing that i find really important that I learned about was more about my culture and where my family comes from which is really important to me. This whole class really spilled into each other. Everything was connected. In my last paper I wrote about being apart of the LGBT community and touched on how being gay was not illegal in the US, but some people consider it deviant behavior. I learned that in my deviant behavior class this semester.

Blog 8: 

I believe that Beauty and the Beast did as well as a job at representing what is going on in the world as they could being a Disney movie. They made Belle smart and strong and also shared a gay moment. They talk bout Belle as being feminist, which is a very accurate representation of of a lot of woman in todays society. These things that this movie showed are becoming norms in our country regardless of who likes it and who does not. A lot of people have problems with the norms that this movie showed, but they are things that are not going away. Not everyone has to like the norms that are put in place. I really enjoyed the movie when I watched it and I fell like like it sheds light on the norms in our society that not everyone wants to realize. 

Blog 6: 

Openness – When it comes to openness i am not open at all. I do not like to share my feeling with people and like to keep my personal business to myself. The less people know about me the better.

Conscientiousness – One good thing about me is the fact I am very organized and I have set my goals high. I have a huge planner that everything I have goes into. I try to be as organized as I possibly can when it comes to my life.

Agreeableness – I am also not very agreeable. Things have to be my way and I get frustrated if they are not. I try to go against everything and that is a really poor quality I have and something that I need to work on.

Extraversion – When is comes to this trait I am somewhat outgoing. It depends on my mood. Sometimes I want to be around people and be very talkative and other times I do not want to be bothers by anyone. It changes all the time, but I feel myself leaning towards wanting to be alone and not socialize with people a lot more often.

Neuroticism – I m very emotional especially at this point in my life. Although I am not over sensitive I have a lot of things going on that make me very upset. At other point in my life I am not as sensitive, but I am so overwhelmed at this point in my life so I have become a very sensitive person.

Blog 5:

I am independent.

I am determined.

I am trustworthy.

I am bold.

I ham hardworking.

I am inteligent.

I am strong.

I am daring.

I am honest.

I am outgoing.

To me I am a more independent person than most of the people my age. At 19 I bought a brand new car while living on my own and working three jobs. I receive no help from my parents and am completely on my own. I very rarely ask people for help unless I aboszultley need to. I consider myself 100% independent and love that I am. I am getting life skills at my age that not all people my age actually have. I think the skills I am gaining are important to be growing and developing into the person I am becoming today. I am so Excited to see where I end up.

Blog 4: 

After taking the first test, I feel a lot more confident that I am learning what I am supposed to during this online class. After completing the review sheet I knew that I would be okay to take the test. For the study guide I looked up the few questions that I didn’t actually know to make sure I

studied it and knew all the material in order to ace the test. After taking the test I realized how much I really am into Cross Cultural Psychology and how I actually know the material. For a lot of my other online classes I feel like I do not learn a lot because I do not have that face to face contact, but I do not feel that way when it comes to this class. I believe I am doing a good job this semester and just need to keep it up to keep my A in this class for the rest of the semester. I do not see myself having any trouble in this class as long as I keep up with my work habits I currently have.

Blog 3:

Out of all the discussion boards, I enjoyed DF 3 Enculturation, because it really allowed me to that I grew up a completely different way than some other kids around the world. If I grew up with a different religion or in a different area, my experience as a child would not be at all the same. This opened my eyes  to the fact that I had a better childhood than majority of the people on this planet and that I am blessed for the way my parents raised me. My life could have been a lot different and I am blessed for the somewhat easy compare to the way things could have been. After this discussion board it allowed me to see that I really do what to help people, because there are a ton of people in need help. I hope I am able to be someone in the future who can and will help anyway they can. Kids don’t have the luxury of picking their childhood. Their parents choose it. When I think of childhoods, I always think of my friend Lizzy who was dumped in a box in china and left to die, who was adopted by a Jewish family In Washington DC. You font get to pick you childhood and I can honestly say I am really luck to have two parents who tried to do everything they could for the 4 of us.

Blog 2: 

In order to be a college student you need to have some strong vales to get your through your four years. For me I am very determined to do well and I think that is my best and strongest value I have to offer. I work three jobs and I am taking 19 credit hours, so I am determined to do what I have to do to get where I want to be. You need to be determined to do well and succeed because if not you end up slacking. I am the only granddaughter on the one side of my family of eight and the only one who wanted to go to college, so my grandparents decided to pay for my education. This made me determined to show them that they made the right decision in helping me go to my dream school. I decided to go to college because my mom really pushed me to be successful. She only got a two year degree from a community college which she regrets. She wanted to have a family instead of working on herself to be able to get a really good college experience and job. After my parents got divorced, I saw how much she struggled and I do not want that to ever be me. My mom as well as my favorite teacher in high school really pushed me to go to college. They all saw how smart and bright I was which gave me confidence to pursue a degree and want to strive for a doctorate. Without the love and support of my family I would not be where I am today, so that is why I want to do well in college. To show them that them believing in me was worth it.

 

Blog 1 :

The objectives in this class will allow me to really be able to understand and appreciate other cultures on a different level than I already do now. My expectations for this classare that I will start to develop a better understanding for why different cultures around the world do different  things. I expect this class to be able to help me with my future world travels, because I will have a better

 understanding of why different cultures all around the word do different things. I am hoping to gain a real understanding and appreciation for people all around the world which will increase my want to travel around the world. For this course I intend to implement my ability to be open minded which will allow me to not be biased towards other cultures. I want to travel and work all around the world, so I feel like this class is a prefect fit for me that will allow me to succeed in the future.