Cultural Concepts
Someone assumes every teenager loves TikTok because several teenagers they know use it. They've turned a pattern into this.
A student is prevented from attending school solely because she is a girl. This basic right is being denied.
What is right to education?
Despite their appearance, strawberries aren't technically berries, but these yellow curved fruits are.
What are bananas?
Food, fashion, music, and holidays belong here on the cultural iceberg.
Above the surface / visible culture
A government shuts down every newspaper that criticizes its leaders. This human right is being restricted.
What is freedom of speech?
This animal's group is famously called a "murder."
What are crows?
A visitor thinks people are being rude because they don't make eye contact, without realizing that avoiding eye contact communicates respect in that society. The misunderstanding comes from "wearing" these...
What are cultural glasses?
Police arrest someone and keep them in prison without telling them what crime they supposedly committed. This basic protection has been denied.
What is right to a fair trial/due process?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of this fast-food restaurant with a symbol of golden arch than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
What is McDonald's?
A traveler says, "They eat dinner at 10 p.m. That's ridiculous. Our way makes much more sense." They're judging another culture according to the standards of their own culture, an attitude called this.
What is ethnocentrism?
Two people commit the same crime, but one receives a much harsher punishment solely because of their religion. This violates the principle that people deserve this under the law.
What is equality/equal treatment?
This board game was originally called The Landlord's Game and was designed partly to demonstrate problems with concentrated wealth and property ownership.
What is Monopoly?
"Many people in this society value extended-family involvement in major decisions" is different from "People from this society can't make decisions independently" because the first is this while the second is a stereotype.
What is a generalization?
A country signs an international agreement promising to protect human rights but continues allowing those rights to be violated. This demonstrates the difference between recognizing a right and actually doing this.
What is protecting/enforcing it?
This country technically has the world's longest coastline.
What is Canada?