Nazi Culture

Shiraev and Levy (2017) defined culture as “a set of attitudes, behaviors, and symbols shared by a group of people and usually passed down from one generation to the next (p.4), which extended my own understanding of culture beyond that of a familial background. I simply thought that, culturally wise, I was just a German/American; my mom was a first generation from German and my father was a many generation from who knows where. I have fondness for both the German flag, as well as the American flag, though growing up I was careful who I told about my half German ethnicity after being asked if I was a Nazi one too many times. It was nice knowing information about German beyond that of World War II and the Nazi’s, to be able to understand that
America may be moving towards a more nontraditional culture as the generation’s progress, but I don’t think we’re completely there yet. American cling to religion being part of government as witnessed, in my opinion, to this last election and hearing individuals of the older generation saying that Trump is bring God back. Though I admit that my belief that Germany is more nontraditional than American could be a representative bias on my part due to the fact that I’ve only experienced that of America’s reaction to certain events that have recently happened here and hearing from German native individuals that Germany has not such bias’s again the LBGT group that we do here in
America is hardcore me and my family first, and maybe possibly that family over there if we have the money or want to help them out (Shiraev and Levy, 2017). It’d be a sever culture shock in that you don’t have the community that one would find in an collectivistic society where the beliefs one has or religion or values are shared (Shiraev and Levy, 2017) and people are more likely than not to help others in their community out no matter the problem. Even the other way around would be as rough on an American in Japan, I think. Neither would really understand what the people in that country could act in the matter that they do. Maybe an American would wonder how the Japanese shared so many similar values and such because where they came from there was so many different perspectives on anything and everything. Whereas on the other hand, the Japanese would wonder how an individual could be so selfish in the way they act for only themselves or their immediate