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response to two student comments from each discussion 10,11,12. the same way I have it written is the same way I want you to write it discussion 10Student 1-I do agree that Americans are ethnocentric. I unlike the textbook, am not able to say that we, Americans, are the most because I do not have research proving this statement available to me. How I came to my determination is by reviewing my experiences with the educational standards and opportunities from grade 1 to grade 12. When I grew up a foreign language was not offered until my senior year of high school. Foreign language was not mandatory. We learn on what we were taught. Not that this gives me a free pass because I had to take a foreign language when I enrolled into college. Did I find it unnecessary for me? Absolutely I did. At my age why would I want or need to put myself through the grueling task of learning a different language? Let's rewind the present time in 2017 back to 1999 when an opportunity was presented to me for my children. Enrolling them into a charter school they would have the opportunity not only to learn English and Spanish, they also were given choices of German, French, Chinese and I do believe three others. This meant that they would learn these languages beginning with first grade. To learn an anything new, in my opinion, the younger, the better. Although my home is primarily monolingual my children do not fit the mold of the ethnocentrism of many Americans because they do use their other languages in their careers.Student 2-This section answer many of the questions that I had of why American people are so hasty on learning another language or culture.  Most of the time I ask the question about this matter and the answer is that everyone in the world knows English, so what would be the point of learning another language.  Many learn another language when they are in high school, but the have to do it because it is mandatory and not because they want to actually learn the language.  On my case, I love learning and understanding other culture and that is why I started taking ASL classes to learn about the beautiful deaf community.  It would be awesome if American people get interested in learning other languages because they would get involved in other cultures and perhaps the racism would get down, who knows. discussion 11Student 1-I would define good health as having the ability to survive without additional help, and ability to create offspring that could survive as well. I guess my definition is similar to a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. My definition would encompass all forms of health, such as in Africa people with sickle cell would be more health than those without because sickle cell actually helps people survive. I think that the broader the better, the WHO definition encapsulates everything that it is supposed to within its definition. The reason why I think that the broader answer is better is that it can be applied in localized terminology. This definition doesnt create a perfect ideal healthy person, but rather give guidelines to be followed from location to location.Student 2 -I would personally define 'good health' as not being ill in any matter and your body in great condition. My definition does not exactly match the WHO definition because I did not refer to good health outside of physical health. Although I did not have a similar definition in mind, I do feel that the WHO definition should include all the dimensions of physical, mental and social well-being. I feel as though these topics should be included because they are major factors that are included in your overall well-being! discussion 12 student  1- I do not believe that culture has much to do with mental illness at all, after reading the text. Culture is more of an upbringing and personality type of ordeal when mental illness deals directly with biological dysfunctions within the brain. The only way that I feel that culture may play a part in mental illnesses is if certain parts of the culture harm or cause a person to do something that will then result in damage to the brain or some type of ill development causing issues. I believe that there should be a still objective, the culture-free definition of what and what is not a mental illness because some cultures are more sensitive to certain materials and may feel something small as a headache to be a mental illness as opposed to depression. Cultures vary which makes it dangerous to determine mental illnesses based on culture.student 2- definitely think that it is important to take culture into consideration when defining mental illnesses. Culture defines the nurture aspect of our personalities and influences who we become in life. I do not think that its fair to have an objective, culture-free definition of what is and is not a mental illness. Its important in a persons life to feel included and having that feeling of whats wrong with me? is one of the worst feelings in life. I think that not acknowledging a persons culture and stating that a person has nothing wrong with them (based on the objective point of view) may be very harmful to a person. It will not be specific enough to include all people with mental illnesses.

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