How Culture Builds Self Image

How Culture Builds Self Image

Culture, according to Krois is the assimilated outline of human behavior knowledge and belief that relies upon man’s capacity for transmitting and learning knowledge to future generations (7). Since we are social creatures, our behavior, beliefs, and knowledge are attained from the social set we live in. As a youngster grows up in a specific culture they adapt to the practices and beliefs and then begin to practice them in daily activities (Para 4). This development is identified as acculturation.

According to Berger acculturation is how…