Questions to focus on: Understanding Culture

These questions can be used at different levels. You can take 30 seconds to think about one or two. You can discuss them in a team or group of like-minded Christians. Or they can be used in a college class, including assignments and research projects, and answered in writing at any depth. They may be freely reproduced for this purpose. Please email us additional questions that could be added to this page.
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  1. Why is it so easy to be ethnocentric in outlook?
  2. List some possible actions we can take in order to view our own culture from the viewpoint of someone else's.
  3. To what extent does the Internet have its own separate culture, which is independent of nationality?
  4. Why do we assume that aspects of our culture's way of living must be be biblical, when in fact they only represent one valid way of behavior among many?