To understand something you have to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean it is impossible to have objective knowledge?
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Extended essay question
To understand something you have to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean it is impossible to have objective knowledge?
Can people rely on only experience and culture as a way of knowing? And is it possible to have an objective opinion, or do people just claim to be to be "objective" even though they're not? This question has no one specific answer and can be viewed from many ways.
"‘Culture’ is the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group, or the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another". Therefore, culture does effect decisions on some concepts and affects people's point of view, based on their culture. Now days in Oman, marriage is affected by people's culture. Oman is known for its mixture of race but every citizen here is still an 'Omani' although they all belong to different surnames and tribes. This affects people's decision on who to marry and what 'surname', preferably the same one or one that belongs to the same tribe. This is common in my country and when a person is looking for a wife or husband the first thing they'd look for is someone from that specific surname. Although marriage is known as being based on the experience of love and trust.