Activity for the book My Psychology

My Take: 10.1 Culture

View the My Take video and then answer the questions.

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In the video and your textbook, is defined as a group of similar people who share beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior.
One of the women in the video, Debbie, noted that she had a specific struggle growing up because of the way a group she belongs to was treated. That group was .
When you think of a culture, you may automatically refer to people’s ethnic heritage, their skin color, or their race. But the young man in the video, Terrell, refers to as a culture because of some of the shared behaviors that in other contexts would be unacceptable.
Your Take! When you think of your own culture, can you identify it as a single dimension, or are there multiple aspects to your own cultural identity?