[HW #9] Individualism as a Cultural Value

Read Individualism as an American Cultural Value [Click on title for PDF] and Answer the Following questions:

1. Name three topics that Americans often think that it is rude to talk about. For each, why do you think that Americans think that they are rude topics?

2. How do concepts such as the care of the elderly and Buddhist philosophy provide strikingly different models for behavior in Thailand and the United States?

3. What incidents in your own life experience illustrate the value placed on individualism in American culture, that other cultures might find strange? (Be specific)