Culture

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Customs/Traditions and Arts/Entertainment:


Overview:

China's culture can be classified as one of the oldest and most complex. media type="custom" key="6282667" width="364" height="364"


 * How does culture influence human actions?

Culture influences human actions because it's the building blocks of who you are. Your culture influences how you dress, how you talk, who your friends are, and everything that makes up you. Chinese culture has influenced human actions in many ways. One example is Buddism. The goal to reach Enlightement influenced a lot of Chinese art and changed their attitude on life.


 * How is culture developed and changed?

Culture can develop because of other cultures presenting new technology and a more modern outlook on life. Culture can also be changed because more people will prefer the new way of life instead of the old way. In China, when music was first created, Chinese musicians set the standard on what types of music was played and composed. During the first few decades of the 20th century, Western music was introduced to China. Western style music became widely popular and chinese composers began to change their style.


 * Do belief systems unite or divide?

Belief systems can both unite and divide. People with similar culture have a similar belief system and unite with one another. Other cultures with beliefs that are different from what is considered the "normal" way of life is what divides people. In China, two key beliefs are ancestral rites and divination. The ancestral cult is based on five laws/beliefs. The first is that the world is divided into three stages: heaven, earth, and the underworld. The second is the importance of lineage. The third is that the human body has two souls. One soul flees at death,the hun, and the other stays with the body, the po. The hun is said to eventually become a spirit (shen) and the po becomes a ghost (gui). The fourth belief is offering sacrifices to their ancesters. The sacrifice is usually wine and meat. The last key belief is that every king and male in the family was considered a meditator and could perform rituals. Divination is the art of using omens and magic powers. In China's case their belief systems unite.

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Debate question:
Is the one child law affecting China postively or negatively?

The one-child policy is the population control policy of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese government allows one child per married couple. Rural couples, ethnic minorities, and parents without any siblings themselves are exempt from this law. 35.9% of China's population follows this policy. It was created in 1978 and was believed to resolve social, economic, and environmental problems in China. It has prevented more than 250 million births since 2000. With an overflow of people in China it created economical and environmental problems that started the slow downfall of China. Limiting the number of kids in a family to one controls the overflow in China's population and will eventually result in the slow decrease in population. 76% of the Chinese population is for the one-child law.
 * Affecting Positively:**

The one-child policy should be resolved in China. The suicide rate in women has increased since this policy. The pressure to have a male in the family puts a lot of stress on women. It is affecting human rights. You can not force a woman to not have kids. It's wrong and goes against the constitution. The gender ratio in china increased in males than females. In 2000 it was 117:100 (males to females). Babies are being confiscated by family planning officials and put up for adoption. The number of kids up for adoption in 1992 was 2,000. In 2001, it went up to 55,000.
 * Affecting Negatively:**

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