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Sunday, August 12, 2012

SEEING AND PERCEPTION


Question: 

Does culture and society affect perception? Why?

Different people have different perceptions. We cannot expect other people perceptions to be similar as ours. Some of the factors that may affect one’s perception include culture and society.

For example, look at the gifs below.

PICTURE 1:

In today’s culture and society, bullying is prohibited and considered as crime. "Bullying is use of superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what is wanted" (Warda, 2012)


What is your perception by looking at the gif above? Some people would say she is intending to hit her.  People will jump into a conclusion that the girl with the red scarf is bullying her. Some would say she is not intending to hit her. People's perception might be different from others. So how the picture have a connection to the questions above? The society we live in believe that bullying is a crime. However, we cannot judge people only by seeing the gif without watching the whole video. 

Another example:


People are bashing the girl wearing the white shirt because she put a rice cake into the red girl's mouth. People in Korea believed that it is rude forcing people to eat the rice cake and people may get choked by eating the rice cake with mouth full. First of all the two girls above are Korean girl's group T-ara. They were promoting their song is Japan and invited to a Japan TV show. They were playing a Japanese game called Batsu. According to Japan's culture, the winner of the game need to put a rice cake into the loser's mouth by force. Japan and Korea have different cultures. Culture can affect someone's perception about things.




References:


-Wardah, A. (2012). Bullying. Touro: Nevada University

-Dr Chris Woo's Lecture notes


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