When analyzing the relationship between Culture and Health, I believe it is very important to consider the personal understanding of the definition of "health" in those across different cultures. As stated in this article, culture is the essential building blocks for this understanding of health. Therefore, when studying this concept and different definitions of health, one should take into consideration the aspect of intercommunication, how health affects those between different cultural backgrounds. For example, we can also apply the concept of Uncertainty Reduction in order to launch an effort to try and bridge these food choice differences into one large, healthy lifestyle among a wide range of different cultures. By studying this concept of intercommunication, one would be able to mend the bridges of different health understandings among different cultures to try and provide some sort of universal definition to help further cross-cultural research.

When reading this paragraph about the differences in writing between different cultures, It really grabbed my attention. I believe that this relationship between different writing orientations can be used an example for a more broad picture and a larger scale. This difference in writing greatly shows how these differences can be applied to social contrasts that they exit among our cultures. Therefore, helping us better study these social behavior differences in our cultures as well as those who exist around us.

This quote of the article stood out to me due it mentioning that culture helps shape emotion regulation, whether it affects the being in a positive or negative way and how society reacts to said emotion. For example, one concept that came to my mind was the idea of priming. If one would experience positive priming their entire life, would that result in making the negative emotion regulation have a larger and more detrimental effect? Also, how does ones awareness on their self-conscious emotions, such as guilt or pride, affect the severity of said emotions on their own personal well-being?

While covering the relations between culture and cognition, we briefly discussed the differences that may arise.Certain cultural differences, such as those that exist between the East Asians and Westerners, can lead to an adequate amount of perception and attentions differences as well. For example, depending on the background and scenario of a particular person, one may either adapt to a more Holistic or Analytic perception. Holistic perception is described by with those attending to the relationship between a certain object and the context in which it is located. On the other hand, Analytic perception focuses more on the independent context and processes of salient objects. In this annotation, we notice that Asians appear to show more of a Holistic view, while Westerners tend to lean towards more the Analytic. This shows how these cultural differences between those who are East Asian or Western can result in a different form of perception, overall affecting their personal cognition amongst their culture.

While reading this article, these stereotypes that were listed evidently stuck out to me. As discussed in class today, these overgeneralized stereotypes play a crucial role in our idea of National Character, that also occurs in other cultures around the world. These listed stereotypes help express how those in a specific culture conform to the "model personality" that is seen as ideal to those around them. This quote also strongly relates to the case studies we discussed in lecture today, as for risk-taking was seen as apart out America's National Character, but the Japanese culture practiced a more risk-adverse trait. However, a few sentences below these listed stereotypes, a scientific theory was proposed to accurately characterize the personality profile by measuring traits from a sample among of the cultures. Since the definition of one's personality profile way differentiate between cultures, does this method provide the best accurate results?

I believe this examination of cross-cultural research provides the most efficient and accurate explanations due to its incorporation of other different theories that all uphold equal significance when interpreting the proposition of cognitive development in adolescents. These theories include Piaget's well-known notion of developmental stages as well as Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning. Kohlbergs theory helps provide strong moral ground along with an universal perspective of development. This section of the article strongly proves how morality and development correspond and are directly affected by the lens of culture. This analyzation has greatly helped me understand both of these theories on a more complex and intricated scale, along with comprehending Piaget's stage-by-stage process in more thorough detail. Consequently, these two theories work hand-and-hand to provide an even more in-depth consensus when it comes to analyzing cross-cultural research. However, one question that arose to me while reading this section of the article was the thought that if other theories that are not processed as stage by stage are capable to help explain these broad connections between morality, development, and culture?

This paragraph in the article stuck out to me because, as citizens in the United States, social norms such as marriage restrictions or permissions is a foreign concept to us. Here, we normalize free marriage, having the person right to marry a significant other without restrictions from family, political, or even societal pressure, compared to certain cultures where the marriages of daughters are arraigned purely out of her control. Personally, these quotes tend to show how, in our culture, we contrast in unfavorable social norms, and even have a foreseen advantage when it comes to free, religious marriage.