Culture among African Americans

Impacts of Culture Changes
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Impacts of Cultural Changes
Cultural change can be defined as the modification of society through contact with other societies, discovery, invention, or innovation. Societies strive for their existence and continuity according to its surrounding environmental conditions. Today, social changes and technological developments in the form of “progress” and “evolution” are the main drives of cultural change among all races. This essay will discuss and give three examples of how cultural changes in our society has impacted my life both positively and negatively.
One cultural change that has affected lives in the society is by the development of advanced information communication technology. This has resulted in the change in the cultural ways of people communicate in the society. The traditional communication methods used to be by means of letters, and the simple electronic media like telephone lines, radios, and televisions sets. With the emergence of the internet, most of the communication is now done online via platforms like the email and other social media platforms. This has affected my life positively as it is now easier and cheaper and faster to communicate with other people.
There have also been changes in the education culture where classes can now be taken online, other than attending the traditional classes physically, making it people to learn from long distances. Educational materials can also be found online now and this makes it easier to access them than in the traditional hardcopy books and libraries.

This has affected my life positively as it has made it easier and cheaper for me to learn by accessing the materials required for my courses from online libraries and other websites.
Another effect of cultural changes is that people have become more individualistic in the recent years mainly due to globalization and the advancements in the information and communication technology (Ogihara, 2014). People are now more social on the internet but antisocial in real life. This has affected my life negatively as nowadays I interact less with my family members and other close friends as everyone is always on social media even when we are around each other. This behavior results in less healthy interpersonal relationships among family members and friends.

References
Ogihara, Y. (2014). How Does Cultural Change Affect Human Psychology And Behavior? Copenhagen Business School Retrieved on April 27, 2018, from https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-society-and-communication/events/how-does-cultural-change-affect-human-psychology-and-behavior