Cultural, Personal and Universal Behaviors

Personal Behaviors

*Few years ago a cousin of mine dead, at first it was so difficult because that person was very close to my family so we were sad, his parents got hurt and it was a strong shock on them, after that my cousin's parents got divorced, because my aunt thought that it was my uncle's fault. The situation was that my cousin and my uncle were riding motorcycles but in a quick moment my cousin went into a hole and after that he got a fracture in his neck and then he dead so it was a value of external control 'cuz that moment couldn't be changed, and it wasn't my uncle's fault because in a moment of the live when we less expect we die

*Two days ago I was walking to the school and I saw two cars that were close to crash, so one of those got angryn and he tried to scare the other driver so he crossed his car close to the other one and they were yelling bad things between them, at first it was kind of funny but then the situation was difficult, so a lesson of that is that we need to respect the laws and this represents a value of directness 'cuz the drivers were to direct between them.

Cultural Behaviors

*Today I saw two guys in the park that was staring something and I was like " I wonder what they are looking for?'' and then I got noticed that they were looking to a girl, that It was really nice, and what I laugh about is that in Costa Rica men used to make hipping sounds to a girl for try to catch her attention, but in my oppinion I prefer not to do that because I think that the girl are not going to pay attention of that and also is kind of ridiculous. So this is a cultural value that reflects informality.

*Everyday you see in the streets people that use many slangs like: Pura Vida, mae, etc. this actions are proper of costa ricans, as other countries Costa Rica have different cultures and costumes from other countries, we always use this kind of slangs to express our ideas so it represents that everyone is egalitarianism in the sense of general culture.

Universal Behaviors

*People use to have fears, many fears as an example of that is when we have a car accident it's normally that the people get scare and frustratring because we feel the fault of the accident, the feel like panic and it happens all the time in every country, like the example that I said before of the two car drivers, it's the same so it represents a value of desrespect.

*Another behavior are beliefs 'cuz we belief in God and we also think that there are spirits that are going to scare us, I think that everyone beliefs that, but in my oppinion that are only supersticions, but sometimes is true because I had the experience of that, few years ago I was scared of a ghost jajaja!! it's for real if you don't believe me.

Cultural Values

Last month my friends and I were in a soccer match, the soccer match was too difficult because the other team was older than us so we need to play pretty well to achieve our goal!! Then the other team shot a great goal so we were frustating about what was happening, so a friend of mine decided to made an own effort but he doesn´t noticed that we are a team so he tried to make his own game, and that doesn´t works so the coach told him that being self-reliance is not a good value in a soccer team who has eleven players!! At first he was annoying but then he apologizes and thought that we really are a close team, so finally we won the game.

Last week in highschool we were discussing about our uniform for next year so some people prefer one style but others prefer another style so we were discussing about what to choose so we were directness because all of us have different ideas and different arguments so we need to express our thoughts. Finally we chose one that everyone likes.

I had the experience of making efforts, because my father had the experience of being father but at the same time he needed to take care of my mom and I and also finish collegue. It was so difficult for my parents because my father does´t had enough time to do all the things, so after he worked he needed to go to collegue so it was very hard ´cuz he doesn´t had enough free time. He was practicing the centrality of family value ´cuz he made big efforts to maintain us and to achieve our goals, this is a good example to say that you can reach wathever you want but it is not going to be easy, you need to focus on what you want for your life. And also you always are going to have difficult steps in your life.