Culture constructs and shapes issues that later affect perceptions aligned to personal identity. It is hard isolating culture from personal identity due to the extensive intertwining between the two aspects. Culture facilitates knowledge acquisition, opinion on natural phenomena, belief systems, character, and social relationships between various people in the community (Vic 5).Therefore, culture communicates ideas that later dictate the flow and influence identity of an individual and even the placed he or she lives and visits. The motives, behavior, reactions, and intentions of people most of the times manifest in cultural practices.
How culture constructs family values
Although the general perception is that culture automatically affects family values, Rodriguez’s argues that a specific group of people or person cannot have total control over another’s identity through imparting cultural values and practices. For example, a father cannot dictate the direction his son will take even after he teaches him to adhere to certain cultural norms. It is vital to note that societal observations suggests that people who emerge from Christian families but are homosexual in nature took their own path despite the cultural norms drilled from childhood to adulthood (Eric 6). On the other hand, Rodriguez asserts that weak cultural values can make a child stray from them when he or she grows up. In short, the extent to which culture influences identity and personal values relies on the manner in people apply information, which goes a long way in subjecting objects into conformity.
It is evident that family values embodies all basic principles which later influences identity and shapes the entire value system of a person. The family is the most basic unit encompassing culture practices across various demographics, education, and social aspects all along considering the economy’s overall influence. Families shape culture into an entity that can drive change and establish a new value system with outside systems. For example, when a child leaves home, he or she has to use cultural values taught within the family domain in the outside world. The assurance from family assists a person explores the world through the cultural norms practiced at home (Nadareishvili 23). Therefore, when a person meets an outside culture matching his or her own, he readily embraces the foreign culture. In short, a person cannot easily overturn their culture and even if they do, the traces remain rooted in various daily activities of the child. For further illustration American society believes in independence from family members, each person needs to fend for themselves and cater to their basic needs and to achieve this culture, ac child leaves home at a certain age. In addition, Americans term dependence as a feebleness that might amount to failure in the society. Hence, leaving behind, a parent’s home signifies power and progress in life.
Richard reshapes the boundaries associated with family value cultures. Holding a different perspective from what many families confirm and believe is a bold statement. For instance, the manner in which a family receives an announcement from their son when he confirms he is gay indicates a lot of things about the culture of that particular family and also the role of a mother in the family reveal the cultural norms of the family (Nadareishvili 118). Hence, culture affects roles and relationships formed by the family, which then can later interrupt homes and even architectural designs.
It is tempting to criticize classical architecture and site a mistake here and there but its outlay is rich in culture and specific. Over the years, architects modified classical architecture into subsections of styles (Eric 6). Hence, it would be unfair to claim that classical architecture in itself lost its spark, yet a lot of people and artists are at liberty to pick one concept from one contrast style and infuse it with another style at their own convenience. The rules completely changed, if not for the better, then, may be for personal reasons. It goes without saying that the current society is at a crisis. People no longer factor in emotions or pay close attention to detail while putting up a building. Simply put, an aspect an average architecture user ignores is that home depot and Walmart buildings needs fingers pointed at them for not promoting original classical architecture in their buildings rather than putting up with substandard housing.
The manner in which people criticize and narrate culture based on architecture matters a lot. Criticism relies on the mechanism and not the building one talks about per se. Thus, one can decide to talk about the church building not meeting the recommended classical architecture standard and neglect the mall. But it does not matter the type of buildings one criticizes, the only element of concern is writing on classical architecture itself and not the buildings. Writing about classical architecture informs preserves and raises awareness on the dos and donts of the ancient yet vibrant style. To emphasize further, classical architecture is not a building but a tradition and a way of life that needs preservation and writing about it sheds more light on the art.
Works cited
Eric Schuldenfrei Cultivating Cultural Memory Observing Ethnic Transitions In Inner Mongolia file:///C:/Users/u/Downloads/WEEK%206-1.pdf
Nadareishvili, Irakli, et al. Microservice architecture: aligning principles, practices, and culture. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2016.
Vic Liptak Vernacular Shifts Observing Dwelling Patterns In Anatolian Turkey file:///C:/Users/u/Downloads/WEEK%206-2%20(1).pdf
