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Cultural Differences Between Knowledge And Acquisition Of Knowledge

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For centuries, knowledge across ages, religion and culture have had an influence and shape the way a person shares their experience and thoughts. Due to the rapid growing population, approximately 7.4 billion people are present on this earth today, with this everyone’s way of thinking and their dogmas in knowledge will always be different and ever changing through time and experienced gained. Knowledge as a whole is described as the familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information or skills which acquired through experiences or education by perceiving, discovering or learning. Through this knowledge can also be categorised into personal or shared, where shared knowledge is produced by collaboration between many people and are subjected to change over time whilst personal knowledge is gained by our own experienced, religious beliefs or education. …show more content…

Thus one can formulate the statement; with reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. Two areas of knowledge, human sciences and religious knowledge systems (RKS) will be analysed due to their contrasting natures. The difference and similarities will then be further analysed to draw a more precise conclusion to which we humans have acquire knowledge and experiences through the years and how this has shaped our individual understanding of the world. However, one might debate, does experience and knowledge gained as a child shaped shared or personal

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