Thursday, February 24, 2011
Influence
In the book the chick-whirr which is basically what the whole book is talking about. So this theory says that basically there is something in us that clicks when an action is done. Such as saying, "I feel fine" after someone asks how you are doing not matter how you feel. Or how about saying, "Thank You" after being given a gift even if you don't like it. This click-whirr that the book talks about is also something that I feel we were brought up to do, sometimes called manners. We learn these manners over the years and that is how the click-whirr has becomes stuck in our habits. So to say we all have a clik-whirr in us is true, but how strong we listen to that click is something that has been in our brains because of our up bringing.
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I would agree. I think that the way that we are raised and the surroundings we live in definitely affect the way that we respond to things. However, to some extent, we all follow the cultural "norms" such as saying "I'm fine" when you really might be having a bad day.
ReplyDeleteI think that most of the time we respond with "I'm fine" because we think that people do not really want to hear what has gone wrong with them. Do you not get annoyed when you ask someone how they are or how they have been, and it ends up being a 20 minute long conversation about how horrible their day was?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rachel but only because it is a norm our culture has generated. In other cultures when someone asks how you are, they expect a detailed response in how you're actually doing. I think these norms we have generated are influenced more so by our nurture from a local standpoint rather than from a broader one.
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