This document discusses cultural groups and how they are formed. It states that cultural groups are formed around shared activities, interests, beliefs, religions or nationalities. Rituals and traditions are often passed down through generations in cultural groups. Cultural groups are also formed around shared values and ways of life, even if members are not the same nationality. However, when cultural groups try to share their beliefs, it can sometimes lead to conflicts if groups feel their beliefs are being challenged. The document concludes that while cultural groups help people feel like they belong, there should not be discrimination and that all people can belong to one large cultural group with many beliefs.

1. Cultural & Values Image Collage
By Peach Suviwattanachai

2. There are various human groups in the world, they tend to get to together
with their activities, interests, beliefs, religion, nationality, etc. Human tend to
be in their cultural/social group without knowing it because sometimes they
are born with it (nationality) or blend into it (friends groups).

3. There are rituals that human do, and sometimes it’s passed down for generations.
These rituals are each cultural group’s unique actions, sometimes it can be for the
country or for your own small cultural group. These rituals originated from values they
believe to follow in their life. It could be politeness, openness, or conservative. For my
country, Thailand, we mostly believe in good manners and politeness to others by
using ‘wai’ as a communicating action of politeness.

4. There is no limitations where human can create their culture group.
It doesn’t matter if they are not the same nationality. If they share
the same ideals and belief then they can create their group. As long
as they have the same values for living their life then it’s possible.

5. Sometimes, people create their social group from their daily life activities. If the actions and
lifestyle that they are doing connect with each others , then they can create a social group. For
example, listening to music, playing instruments, using computer, playing with phones, walking
in the park. All these small things that became ways of living for you, can lead you to a small
cultural group where you meet others who are similar to you. For me, my small cultural group is
my group of friends where we always talked on the phone.

6. Sometimes human get together when they are following the same way of life. People have their own beliefs in living their
life, sometimes it can be positive or negative due to each person. With the same way of life, they tend to get together and
create their own cultural group. However these values have a greater affect to your lives because it will indicate you actions
to the society depend on what you believe. These actions can be successful or not depending on your values of living you
life. For example: if you believe in using drugs and dealing drugs for a living, the actions in your life is that you have to
always live undercover or the police with catch you.

7. Human needs labels because they want to feel that they belong
somewhere and that they are not alone in the world because there are
others who are believing the same religion with them or the same
nationality as them.

8. Some people might be lost, or unaware in what cultural group they are
in due to the situations around them. Also, it might be difficult for them
to realized what culture they are following due to various culture around
them. ( International students, TCK, unfortunate children)

9. Every humankind wants to share their beliefs around the world
and usually through group work where everyone can cooperate.
When human cooperate they don’t need one type of people,
but various, so they can have different ideas.

10. However, sometimes the way that they shared their ideas interpret it in a
negative way. Since each person believe that they are right, they tend not to
listen to others ideas. Also the way they live their lives might be different from
each others which will create conflicts when share their ideas due to the
opposing opinions.

11. Often, human tend to label others by things they can only see from the
outside, and it’s not fair for those people to received those types of
stereotypes when they should be accepted as equal human beings

12. Conclusion
In this world, there are many ways to define each person. However, since
there are so many people in the world, people tend to create groups for
themselves, so that it will easily be recognized. These groups are created by
that’s group beliefs, values, customs, languages, & religion. These cultural
group with their believes can affect the way their actions are done through
out the world since it can be positive or negative due to how much it affects
others. Their decisions of making those actions with be different from
others cultural group because each cultural group have different way of
living their life. As a bigger whole these cultural group is called nationality,
however cultural group doesn’t have to be as big, it can be a small group
where they have the same value to follow for living their lives. Their groups
can be represent as anyway it’s shown, but most of the time, people tend to
give names for it, either by the appearance (stereotype) or by their actions.
However, sometimes when each group is trying to share their beliefs to the
whole world, it might not be the best idea since each group have their own
beliefs and each group believe that they are right which will create conflicts
between each other. The most important thing is that, there shouldn’t be
discrimination in the world since we are all human, and that we can all be in
one cultural group with many beliefs.

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