Different Cultures, Different Interpretations

Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. “A society’s culture, consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members”(Geertz 242). The rituals, customs, ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation …showed first 75 words of 970 total…

…showed last 75 words of 970 total…will embody a completely different meaning, which will be special to that culture and that culture alone. This is why it is impossible for a single event to exist to two different cultures at the same time because to each individual culture the event is not the same. Works Cited Geertz, Clifford. “Thick Description.” A Cultural Studies Reader. Eds. Munna & Rajan. London: Longman, 1995. 236-256 Hemingway, Ernest. “In Our Time.” New York, New York: Scribners, 1925. 15-19.