What Contributes to Our Perceptions of the World?

“How can cultural experiences shape, impact or influence out perception of the world?”

Being exposed to other cultures and experiences opens our mind to understanding other ways of living. If you are exposed to something different from yours, your perception would change by the way your thought process is about certain groups of people. Many things affect our point of view of the world positively and negatively, thought I think most of the time it does it negatively. In today’s world we see a lot of cultures in one place (states, city, schools, jobs, etc.), but within these places theres discrimination, racism, had other bad things that make us have a differently opinion than others.

Brainstorm at least five artifacts that serve as symbols for you, your life, and your culture. What do the objects reveal about you and your culture?

A calculator represents my love for math. Math is a part of my family’s culture and has become a part of mine. Math is perfect. It challenges the mind. It has the power to solve real life problems. It explains real observations, and appeals to intuitions most of the time. It produces exact answers. Its abstract, yet purely objective and absolute. Its man-made, yet all the universe is modeled by math. Its incorruptible. It can create art. It can inspire creative thinking, and in that even solving problems is an art of its own. It is the way I think. When asked why I like Mathematics, I realized that it is all down to my personality. Being a composed, explicit person, I enjoy the challenge of questions with difficult to achieve answers. The ‘&’ symbol represents the type of music I listen to. ‘&’ is the official symbol of the band Of Mice & Men. I listen to metal, rock, screamo, or alternative music and the & symbol represents some of each. A book represents my passion for reading. Its about living a thousand lives through the eyes of your protagonist, becoming so involved in their lives, learning the lessons they learn, "meeting" the most interesting (nearly real) characters that continue to stay with me long after the book is read and back on the shelf. I love picking up a put and immediately being thrown into a different reality. I view a book as another universe, where I can escape reality, a way to relax myself. A green ‘V’ in a circle represents me being vegetarian. I have been vegetarian since I was born and it just became a part of me. I do not have to stay a vegetarian, but my parents are. So I choose to stay vegetarian. The last symbol that represents me is a pair of glasses. Since 1st grade I have always been seen as the ‘nerd’. I always has straight A’s and the teachers loved me. I am a year ahead of my grade level in math, currently taking pre calculus. This made me more of the ‘nerd’ i already was. I also happen to need glasses.