What Is The Relationship Between Kluckhohn And Strodtbecks

Before I started reading on Geert Hofstede I found Kluckhohn and Strodtbecks value orientation questions to be quite interesting. Each question had three possible responses, in which I went over all of them and saw where I stood for each response. I thought their suggestion that all cultural groups answer these questions to more understand peoples cultural differences was an interesting way to go about doing this. To better understand my cultural differences and where I stood with these questions, I will quickly go over each one. The first question being “what is human nature?”, which I said a mixture of good and evil. The second question “what is the relationship between humans and nature?”, which I said human dominate. The third question “what is the relationship between humans”?, which I said group oriented. The

For example when I 'm with my friends and the way I talk, I sure would act like that around my grandparents or other relatives. Everyone has some way they act towards certain people, so I feel it 's just part of human nature or how we were raised. The Identities I chose that had an impact on my development was age identity, gender identity, and class identity. I felt when growing up gender identity had a huge part of my development without even being aware of it. For example, out of the intercultural communication book it said “some activities are considered more masculine or more feminine” , this is true in which I did more masculine activities. I feel growing up I didn 't really have much of a choice what to do, such as my parents putting me into masculine sports (baseball,basketball). I had no problem with those sports but it wasn 't something I got to choose for myself, I felt like I was forced to play them. This was just how I was raised and it shaped me to do masculine activities, or it would be frowned upon, or I was made fun