first class!

the 2 most important point viewed in class were:

The importance of knowing cultures, not only in firsts principles of theirs but also more deeply thinking in the behavior of people of each culture guide by their different believes such as their religion, geographic location, language etc.. 

is important to know or obtain  the most information about another culture due to allow us to determine how their values, patterns and thoughts could be focus on as a collective culture. Of course we have our own individual side that manage our way of acting (personality) but most of this behavior are linked up with the collective ones.

Culture is more than just a costume, you could know very well one culture but live and adapt to it is a different thing as we have like a cassette in our minds making less easier to act as other cultures. Sometimes is difficult to understand people from our same culture because of  misunderstandings in communication so is much more difficult to do it with others that must have another language and costumes.

 For what is very useful knowing others culture is at the time of doing business where you must understand the principal rules of it, what to do and what not to do.

the other important point is the cultural iceberg that goes hand in hand with the previous topic; this theory talks about the visible part of a culture that is something around 10% ( like the small piece we can see on icebergs) but, under that percentage is something bigger build up of perceptions, roles, believes, etc...

Religion as a dimension of culture

The rol religion plays in culture is so important because men is determine by his relation with God and looks at him as the creator of human, dont matter the way each culture call him its known for all cultures that someone created us. as we were born and raised with that idea, is something that lives everyday with us and therefore, must be part of our culture.

"the religion is the substance of the culture, and culture the shape of religion" said Paul Tillich, la era protestante.

There is an important aspect of religion and is the faith which is define as the determination of men; Faith is what moves us day to day, even people that do not believe in God, have faith on something.

So, as culture covers so many things about our behavior and lifestyle the meaning of men is better describe in religion, in believes and faith.

sources: http://www.contra-mundum.org/castellano/libros/concepto/CCC03.pdf