PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Social Psychology
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Even though you may know people who live in an independent culture they may be fairly interdependent as people, don"t have a problem with this, it"s also about the culture. More independent in western and more interdependent in japanese. Difference between american and japanese individuals identity. Me as a self is enclosed within my skin, it"s also inside me, brain, heart, soul . Other people aren"t part of me and don"t define me. You have certain traits they are defined within you. What is it you see, what is in the foreground, is more important (individual self) What is in the background is the society. Culturally shared, maintained (language, ritual, law, texts) Language we use is much more i" based i did this, i want this, i think something that you are doing and it"s within yourself. Each person goes on stage individually, picture taken individually. Common law based on individual cases (in english part of.