Cross Cultural Psychology comparison of Attachment in the United States and Amae in Japan

Running head : Cross Cultural Psychology comparison of Attachment in the United States and Amae in Japan

Cross Cultural Psychology comparison of Attachment in the United States and Amae in Japan

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I . Introduction

Culture enables people to adjust to their physical as well as social environment . Culture enables the members of society to develop ways of coping with the exigencies of nature as well as ways of harnessing their environment . People also have to learn to relate themselves with others in to survive . As Schwartz (1998 :48 ) pointed

out , the culture of any society represents an adaptation or adjustment to the various conditions of life , including their physical , social , and supernatural environment

No culture is completely static . Every culture is in constant flux and the changes represent adjustments to the environment . Culture changes at different rates . The changes occur as a result of discoveries inventions , and cultural borrowing . In some areas , control of the natural environment has been pursued to a point that the society has become endangered . Natural resources , such as bodies of water , forests plant and animal life and minerals , have been so exploited that the environment is close to destruction . The acceptance of change depends on the exposure of the members of society to new ideas and ways different from their own and their opportunity to accept ideas and ways through diffusion

United States and Japan are belonging to different continents locations and have different set of people however , these two countries have similarities in some ways . Its people adapt and practice different cultures . Its culture shapes the behaviors and characteristics of its people that will make them noticeable that these groups of people are come from United States and Japan

Thesis Statement : This study will conduct a cross cultural psychology comparison of Attachment in the United States and Amae in Japan thus describes its functions , similarities and differences

II . Discussion

A . Its culture , similarities and differences

United States

There are a lot of groups of people that reside in United States whites made up 83 .2 percent of the populations blacks 11 .7 percent American Indians , Eskimos , and Aleuts 0 .6 percent Asian and Pacific Islanders 1 .5 percent and other nonwhites 3 .0 percent . The nonwhite groups are concentrated in various parts of the country

Freedom in matters of education and the right of every child to have an education are basic principles in the United States . Unlike many other nations , the United States does not have a central or federal system of education , Establishing and administering public schools is one of the powers exercised by each state (Fritsch , 2001 . The state , in turn delegates much of this responsibility to local school districts Literacy in the United States is high just like in Japan

In comparison to Japan (which only has two major religions , no other country in the world has a greater variety of religions , communions denominations , and sects than the United States . More than 220 religious bodies report membership figures...