Cultural Influence in Shaping Human Body
Effects that Culture have made on the physical changes of the human beings.
Name: Wong Hiu Ying
Student ID: 08253457d
Date: 30th September, 2008
Effects that culture have made on the physical changes of the human being.
Culture is one of the representative characteristics that reflecting the norms of activities of human within a certain area, namely the society. There’s no single modified definition of culture, however, by referring to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO (2002) (1)“culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs.” In simple words, any activity within a society can be regarded as one of the cultural elements. Culture is important in our daily life as it can explain the rationales of the activities, and in other way, culture also has strong influences and effects over the modification on the physical changes of the human bodies.
Cultures are different in times and areas. First of all, time is a prerequisite for cultural development, as time allows culture to assimilate and differentiate. Secondly, there are other factors that affect the differences in culture, for examples religion, civilization, geographical differences in landscapes…etc. These factors are relatively stable over times, unless there is radical geographical change or political struggle. Thirdly, in modern times, cultures in the world undergoes rapid changes with newly developed ideas and the styles of lives have changed, for examples working in urban society, contact between different culture and the technological developments, these changes of culture made significant effects on the changes of human bodies physically. Each factor would be explained in the following.
Time is important in
Name: Wong Hiu Ying
Student ID: 08253457d
Date: 30th September, 2008
Effects that culture have made on the physical changes of the human being.
Culture is one of the representative characteristics that reflecting the norms of activities of human within a certain area, namely the society. There’s no single modified definition of culture, however, by referring to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO (2002) (1)“culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs.” In simple words, any activity within a society can be regarded as one of the cultural elements. Culture is important in our daily life as it can explain the rationales of the activities, and in other way, culture also has strong influences and effects over the modification on the physical changes of the human bodies.
Cultures are different in times and areas. First of all, time is a prerequisite for cultural development, as time allows culture to assimilate and differentiate. Secondly, there are other factors that affect the differences in culture, for examples religion, civilization, geographical differences in landscapes…etc. These factors are relatively stable over times, unless there is radical geographical change or political struggle. Thirdly, in modern times, cultures in the world undergoes rapid changes with newly developed ideas and the styles of lives have changed, for examples working in urban society, contact between different culture and the technological developments, these changes of culture made significant effects on the changes of human bodies physically. Each factor would be explained in the following.
Time is important in
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