The values Nort American live by....

In the long list of values of Roberth Khols that americans live by, some of them catch my atention: freedom, time, control over the environment, equality and individulism,independence and privacy,competition, optimism, informality,directness,openness,materialism. All of them considered as positive. Probably, freedom and privacy are the most important values that North Americans fight for. Since they enter at school or even star talking those values are teaching to little boys and girls. They are encourage to compete in every step of life, and is very important to them to be self sufficient and indipendent during their life time.

QUILT ACTIVITY ESSAY

Any art form, language, clothing or tales are products of a culture; but exists another dimension that shape in an unconcious level the form that a culture acquire. The weather, the form and shape of the land, how many volcanoes a place has, if the country has a way throug sea, how many species of flora and fauna change considerably the perception and behavior of an entire community. Costa Rica a small country of America has an extraordinary and complex net of connections with the form, environment, a complex flora and fauna with a big territorial sea in the pacific that add to its territory an incredible quantity of sea species. Its important to mention this because someone who was born in the artic probably base his values and way of behavior in the order of survive in the harsh environment, meanwhile someone in Costa Rica use his resources to tune with nature, with its beauties.

Culture in a country exists due this factors, in any part of the world the culture is a reflection of those aspects related with nature. This is probably the reason that some people in a country when someone ask them about a culture, answer with the beauties that mother nature have blessed them. Quilt essay activity in my case was an opurtunity to share how important is nature and its beauties in my personal values and my way to behave. Volcanoes such as Rncon de la Vieja, caves like Barra Honda, beaches like Puerto Viejo, Limon and parks like Isla del Coco are products of a culture that I would like to share with an alien visitor, not any visitor but any that cares and behaves according with a set of values that tunes with life of any species. It was great to find during the activity a biologist, a person tuned with a set of values in order to survive and make all the beauties of nature last.

All the dimensions of culture are important to see the whole, but as has been told previously the place of the world where a culture exists is the link that join all together, without this part a culture cannot be developed. In other words a culture is nothing without its products.