Culture is the learned set of language, symbols, beliefs, values, and even the tools we share. Culture includes the way we think. Culture provides guidelines for how we act. Culture also gives us a
the way of interpreting the world around us. Your assignment is to identify a culture different from your own in a common everyday setting. For this assignment, you will choose a restaurant, grocery/merchandise
store, or another business representative of a particular culture. Not only will you identify key aspects of the relevant culture, but you will talk to an employee/owner about that culture. You will identify and provide
examples of the following characteristics of culture:
Culture shock
Folkways
Laws
Material culture
Mores
Nonmaterial culture
Norms
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Symbols
Values
