5/21/19 Week 5: Response to Cultural Paradigms

We've all had some experiences based on cultural paradigms, listening to the TED talk, which talked about the perception of beauty in the person's country of origin, I could feel very identified. I come from a country where beauty is highly prized, women should try to reach perfect measures, we should go out with makeup, well dressed and perfumed every time we go out into the street, we should be thin and always wear high heels, since "we are the country of the most beautiful women in the world". However, many years ago I stopped trying to reach that standard of beauty, and now that I live in another country, let's say I can breathe and be freer as to whether or not I go out with makeup to shop if I'm a little overweight. I've tried not to follow that parameter with my daughter.


Many are the cultural paradigms, for example, the so-called first world countries may come to think that they are superior or that they have better things than the so-called third world countries, however, when there is exchange between their citizens, the "first world" are delighted with the warmth of others and can see that there are many more similarities than differences. In the study of Ven, Follow Me this week, one precisely studies when the Savior can see beyond appearances when he knows Zacchaeus, who in the sight of others was a usurer and a thief, yet Jesus Christ could see his heart. We can be like Jesus Christ and try to see people's hearts, without our prejudices and paradigms impeding us.