Traditions Influence

Tradition. Sometimes we see it in our own culture but, to us it is easier seen and understood by looking at cultures rather than our own. In America our capitalist way of life is the norm. We know nothing else but what is normal, unless we are privileged to live or are educated to understand from a different perspective. This is true for all cultures, this is why there is so much grief and uncooperative natures of nations and countries. It is easiest to see someone else's "faults" rather than our own. Yet what a fault is, is to be determined by ones own beliefs and traditions they were taught to understand. We look at the differences in other counties (i.e. China, Japan, East Asia) and observe their way of life. As Americans it is difficult to understand Communism or Confucianism, but to Asians it is difficult to understand Capitalism and Protestantism. These characteristics of our two countries is what they were founded on (America: Protestantism, China:Confucianism). These traditions of thought were the base of the culture, politics, and way of life, of the country in which one may live.