How Cultural Bias Affected My Decision-Making

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This writing assignment will describe how cultural bias affected my decision making, with turning a simple gesture of kindness into a regrettable moment in life. Unfortunate moments in life occurred when cultural bias could manipulate my decision-making process. As cultural bias made me feel compelled to always contribute gestures of kindness as part of the neighboring cultural bond. Neighboring cultural bond is a decision-making willingness sense for the well-being of the entire neighborhood through trust and the pledge to help thy neighbor. A pledge to help thy neighbor decisions were weighed without giving much thought, especially if it helped someone else. Occasionally, this thoughtless decision driven by cultural bias turned a thoughtful gesture awry wrong and led up to a series of unfortunate events. The series of unfortunate events all began with a friend asking to borrow my car.
Normally, the neighboring cultural bond bias would have my decision-making process loaning my car to any licensed driver. Loaning a car out to a licensed driver comes with the responsibility of filling the gas tank before returning the car plus returning the vehicle in the same condition as it was loaned out. However, when my friend approached me to borrow my car there was a hesitation. The hesitation came from a …show more content…

The failure of him to answer phone calls or respond to texting left a sinking feeling that something went awry wrong. That sinking feeling that something went awry wrong made my decision-making process faulty. I trusted someone close to me enough to loan something of great value for the reason of picking up his mother from the hospital. The car was not borrowed to pick up anyone from the hospital or would it be returned that day. The car was impounded for speeding and driving without a license. Nevertheless, my decision making was faulty twice influenced by the need to help family and

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