Our Values

This week we talked about our values. We read an article that described the 13 main values Americans live by. It was kind of weird to read the values that I lived by and how different others values were. Values make us ethnocentric. We might think, "Doesn't our values make sense? Why doesn't anyone else live this way?", but others might think the same way about their cultural values. It made me realize that some of the values that we, Americans, live by aren't so good. But however, I still feel that because I lived this way my whole life so far, I wouldn't really change it unless I'm in a different country. I've adjusted to this value that it'd be weird to change it. It's not like those small changes we adjust to, but it's going to affect major events in my life. Time, for example, is something that I can not change. In Brazil, they don't really care that much for time. In America, time is everything. Having a schedule and knowing what you're going to be doing is helpful not only to you but those around you. Of course you would influenced by certain value by your environment, but I doubt that time would be something that we would not consider a value. It would be really hard to change values unless your environment is that way as well. It would be easier to have different values if your really young because then you're also learning everything else as well.