Reflection Paper On Culture

Critical Reflection Essay
People can trying to alter their behavior to integrate themselves to different cultural situation by learning the Do’s and Don’ts of other cultures (Reiche 2012). However, people will always one step behind if they still unaware of the ways they perceive the situation nowadays. This is because according to Reiche (2012), being unaware of own judgments or values in own culture, will immediately lead to conflict between two different culture people and more likely react in negative way.
Taking an experience I met before, is about different race and culture background in Malaysia. There were group of people waiting in front of the lift, one Malay girl came out and she carried a lot of things. She was also tried to use her leg to move a big box on the floor out of the lift. While waiting her to come out, everyone include me just stand there and wait she moved out her things. At the moment I didn’t have any intention to help her, but after a while, a Malay boy moved forward and gave her a hand. It seems like the culture become same race will only help each other nowadays. I admit that I had stereotype to Malay but not all the time, because I

According to Spencer (2012), race commonly refers to genetic or biologically based similarities among people, but has distinct physical characteristics to separate groups of people from one another. Sometimes race and culture do seem to work hand in hand to create visible and important distinctions among groups within larger society; and sometimes race plays a part in establishing separate cultural groups (Spencer 2012). Besides, according to Spencer (2012), race from the basis for prejudicial communication that can be a major obstacle to intercultural communication. But in Malaysia, there are three major races like Malay, Chinese, India and each races still manage to preserve their individuality, yet still manage to live together and tolerance with each