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Heres your shmoop du jour brought to you by cultural

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representation that's demonstrated by Disney's it's a small world ride at [Disneyland Park entrance gates]

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least that's what we hear we've been in line for the better part of a year now [People cuing for Disneyland]

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all right anyway here say a question Alex following can be considered

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cultural traits except what and here your potential interest okay so in order

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to tackle this question you might need to know what a cultural trait is well Man blows into instrument]

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luckily just what it sounds like the traits or traditions beliefs and values

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that people learn in their culture or community that's what it is sort of like

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how Americans have learned the tradition of standing outside in the freezing cold [People standing in the cold]

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at 3:00 in the morning the day after Thanksgiving all for that sweet sweet

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flat-screen TV definitely cultural but what isn't

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considered a cultural trait about a family dynamics well no not quite the

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dynamics of family or perhaps the most essential of cultural traits it's [boy throws food at sister]

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through the family that each new generation learns how they're expected

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to behave in what they believed so sure it might be a little weird that we

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believe the cure to a cold is to take a bath and warm jello but hey that's what [Man appears from a green jello bath tub]

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our folks did cold remedy and dinner all in one anyway this would eliminate

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answer a takeaway to be religious beliefs and it will probably won't come

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to the surprise that religion is also a key trait that defines and distinguishes [monks praying]

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a particular culture well cultures used religion could define

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moral guidelines and explain questions about the meaning of life you know like

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Monty Python pretty deep stuff right there whether [People praying to Monty Python]

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it's Judaism Christianity the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or anything

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else its cultural trait so B can't be the correct answer

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what about see Rachel discrimination is that a cultural trait

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well race and or ethnicity definitely used as a defining characteristic of a [Men with different ethnicities stand together]

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culture which unfortunately means that in some cases race can be used as a

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means of exclusion from a particular culture we're not saying that's right

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but we are saying it's the wrong answer you've probably noticed that most [People sitting down eating food]

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cultures have their own distinct cuisine you might think that Indian food is

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ridiculously spicy but to those who were raised with it as part of their culture

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it's barely tickles their face but the jury's still out on whether Twinkies and [Man holding McDonalds burger and kids jump up and down]

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McDonald's count as cuisine but D is not our answer either way that leaves us

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with each the elections fall under the category of political not cultural

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characteristics because they indicated democratic means of governing and [People walking together to vote]

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administering a territory ensure it might be part of your culture to argue

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about election looking at you uncle Steve but that doesn't make it a

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cultural trait so he is the correct answer and there we go we took a while

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answering that one now surely we must be closer to the front of the line [People stood in a cue at BestBuy]

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yeah and we might just get a churro instead [Plate of churros handed to man in cue]

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