Cultural Influences On Young People

Teenagers experience a rush of hormones around puberty. “Most people consider teenage years to be a rush of sexual hormones, however the brain has an increase in dopamine, oxytocin, and vasopressin” (Anderson). Each of these hormones affect different aspects of behavior. “Dopamine creates pleasure and Oxytocin and Vasopressin act as bonding hormones. Oxytocin causes women to trust their partner to make bad decisions” (Anderson).

Atticus influences her views, Aunt Alexandra influences her style, and Jem influences her actions. Atticus, Aunt Alexandra, and Jem play a key role in influencing how Scout views things while she is maturing during the book. Also her Aunt Alexandra influences her on how to portray herself in society. Her family members also help her achieve the outcome of an outstanding young lady at the end of the novel. The influences Scout receives during this time of age help her understand the community more by, the view of black people, how to portray oneself, and the influential behavior she follows from Jem.

Cultures have differed than each other, depending on the places they were established in, the way of survival people pursued to acclimate with different circumstances, and how they shared their experiences with each other. As a result, the history of a culture is documented from its people, since they keep the culture alive and pass it down their generations. Each nation has its own unique culture; therefore, it’s not easy to merge two different cultures together, because it creates some kind of contrast between the cultures’ orientations, and this is what is meant by a cultural

Connie is affected by the music of her time period and this causes her decisions to be effected. To have a strong relationship with family members or anyone in general one must spend time with the person. Allowing oneself to have time with another person helps one learn about the person and understand a person to a higher level. Connie sees her family as being boring, helpless, and annoying. She values her friends more than her family because she believes she can relate to her friends more than her parents or sister.

She was given the tasks of learning on her own and doing things considered more mature, such as taking care of herself and paying bills, something that one normally is not tasked with until they have grown up. Not only did she mature in life skills during her childhood, but she also developed a change in racial views, thanks to the many people she met as a result of her family’s actions towards her. All of these events that had a major impact on Ellen as a person, happened in her childhood, and they all shaped her for the rest of her life. This demonstrates how the earliest years of life are really the most influential, because the people that one is surrounded by when they are still developing personal views and beliefs, have the most impact on

Bandura (1977), Found that the most influential ways of learning comes from observation. Most individuals are influence by their environment. From their environment around them. The social learning theory is where a person will learn by observing and Children are encouraged to do the appropriate sex-typed activities of the following Parents traditional roles feed two children in traditional families, Media portrays traditional roles for females and males. Therefore, there are many women who are placed in the traditional domestic role, Schools transmit the information of gender role stereotypes to children.

The purpose of this is to set an example to her audience of how she struggled and how she achieved happiness without having to harm herself. It is evident, individuals develop traumas at a young age due to the ideas being harvested by society, for instance, “By the time I was sixteen, I had already experienced being clinically overweight, underweight and obese,”(17-18) this helps the audience understand that these ideas not only traumatize a child but compels a child to feel the necessity of achieving ideal features at a young age. It is evident that for a child to be considered “... overweight, underweight, and obese...” by the age of sixteen is not healthy. Blaid explains how as a child she wasn’t affected by being called fact, until she understood what it truly meant. This is to highlight that children are introduced to these ideas at a young age, and will eventually develop into a distorted understanding of healthy lifestyle.

Her mom always wanted her to be like her when she was little, but Ni Kan has different interests. This passage reflects to family and how people see their culture from the outside picture because in the passage it says that people know how the daughter feels and believes she should be able to make her own choices. Their culture and life is viewed from the outside picture too others and what we may see in life

Diversity and a counselling relationship Culture and diversity is all around us, its part of everyday life. The person we become as we grow up is impacted on by our own cultural backgrounds and beliefs according to the Counselling directory (2013) “In counselling as in everyday life, culture is the main difference between people, as in religion, race, age, class, sexual orientation, disability and gender. The cultural divisions within society and our cultural heritage impact upon the family and society as a whole i.e. where we come from, origin, religion, how we live, where we live and how we speak. This also relates within single parent, polygamous, same sex or monogamous family situations.” It’s only natural therefore that our own cultural beliefs and the cultural beliefs of the client would impact upon a counselling

However, there are many helpful organizations trying to overcome the social problems among teenagers. One of the social challenges that we are facing in our daily life is early pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is defined as an unintended pregnancy during adolescence. Teenage pregnancy in Malaysia has a chronic increased and many young mothers-to-be are estranged from their families. However, teenage pregnancy is a growing issue which is not just happened in Malaysia, but across the globe which the numbers of teenage girls who become pregnant are steadily increasing.