This week we learned about Culture. To understand some of my insights, I feel it is necessary to answer a couple of questions, what is culture and what things determine a culture? Culture: Attitudes, behaviors or characteristics of a particular social group. Family culture can be determined by how much money someone makes, your ancestry, your behavior/ mannerisms/ the way you present yourself, education, time, location, speech, dress, religion and the amount of access you have to resources. Have your ever thought about what culture you belong to? Why are you classified in that category? And how do you feel about the culture that you belong to? President Spencer W. Kimball, suggested that we marry people within our social class, he said this: “Now, the Brethren feel that it is not the wisest thing to cross racial lines in dating and marrying. There is no condemnation. We have had some of our fine young people who have crossed the lines. We hope they will be very happy, but experience of the brethren through a hundred years has proved to us that marriage is a very difficult thing under any circumstances and the difficulty increases in interface marriages”. I believe that the reason he said this, was not to be harsh, but to let us understand that coming from common circumstances prevents unnecessary strain on marriage. One of those strains could be struggling with being able to spend money how and went you want rather than being a penny-pincher. Neither of these are wrong or right, but both spouses may not have grown up with the same circumstances. If they are unaware of the differences and how to compromise, then this can lead to conflict in the home, even if they don't know why. This quote is from Elder Packer: "One of you may be well-born and well-formed while another is not. In either case, there is a testing. That is what mortality is all about. The poorly born may lack self-esteem, or the well-born infected with pride. Pride is the most deadly spiritual virus. In the eternal scheme of things, who is to say which is the most favored." We may not have chosen the family that we are in but are we making the best of the situation? I watched a video clip called Tammy's Story, this family that was very poor, they were doing the best they could, but I wonder if they understood the potential that God had for them. We are each sent here to this Earth to have a body and to be tested. We are each here with different obstacles and trials that we must go through; I firmly believe that it isn't until we understand who we are and who created us that we can be successful in our endeavors to become like Christ. If you would like to watch the videos that I watched, click on the videos below, tell me what you think about Tammy's Story!
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Kelli-MarieI am a junior at Brigham Young University-Idaho, studying Marriage and Family Studies. Archives
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