Create a cultural profile describing as many of your primary (unchangeable/present at birth) and secondary (changeable) characteristics as you can. This can be a list. Primary characteristics include: sex, age (birth year), height (at full adulthood), certain physical characteristics you were born with €“ color, appearance, etc., native language, sexual orientation, geographic region you come from, genetic intellectual abilities, genetic physical abilities, health, birth order, religion born into, ethnicity. Secondary characteristics include: occupation, educational attainment, geographic region you live, family composition €“ marital status, parent status, religion, appearance €“weight, physical features, learned languages, military status, etc.

Discuss the different ways you appear to others.

A-  How do you think you appear to others€“ colleagues in your workplace, people on the street, close friends and family?
B-  What do these different groups know or think they know about your values, your fears and needs? [1-2 pages, 50 pts]

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Imagine that you are an average person living and working in a developing country. You know how to read and write a little and you live in a small structure with your family. Sometimes you have electricity but many times you do not. You do not have running water or indoor plumbing or refrigeration. Discuss how you, in this circumstance, would see or perceive the Western world.