Friday, April 22, 2011
Week 13, Question 2
Five cultural barriers to creativity would be keeping everyone happy, staying true to yourself, not thinking beyond the situation, doing what everyone else says is “the right way” & need for doing something. Ideas like these keeps groups from expanding their grounds and ways of process. It limits what the individual really wants to say and input to the group. Cultural barriers keep a group from growing because they want to do what society says to and does. These barriers are based upon how people and groups are afraid to take chances with the fear of being rejected. They play it safe instead of pushing the limits. But it is pushing the limits that makes a good group better or a group to really stand-out among the rest. I think everyone has experienced cultural barriers at some point. I would say I experience mine when it comes to food. I am a REALLY picky eater and I don’t like to push the limits with different kinds of food. I stick to plain foods rather than trying something new. I think at every one of my favorite restaurants I have the one thing I go in and order every time. (BJ’s-Chicken ceaser salad sandwich, Fridays-chicken fingers, Sandwich Shops-Turkey, mayo, mustard….ect.)
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Excellent points about barriers based on fear and being afraid to take chances! They definitely come about in different forms, and it's a good example that you used about food. That is a great example of how we generally let our inner voice our own cultural barriers control our lives, and how fear of something new and something we do not know controls us sometimes. In group situations we often face these same problems. At school, we probably have a set behavior and a set way of how we act when we are put in groups. We talk about certain things and we don't talk about other things. Some of us only speak after others have spoken, and a lot of times, even if we have an idea, we sometimes find ourselves staying quiet because we are afraid to explain our idea fully in fear of what others may think, or we just want to stick with what everyone has decided on so that we don't have to worry about something new or different.
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