Individualism and collectivism are two perspectives on culture generally acknowledged by numerous professions. While ‘there is no single definition’ of culture or its subgroups, these two terms portray perspectives of culture that are widely used to help characterize the term culture. (Estep and Kim, 2010). individualism connoting independence is described by the word and letter ‘I’, the ‘I’ point of view on life. Frequently we tend to customize our life by the things or objectives we need to chronicle as individual ‘I’ (individualism). It is imperative to regard others while organizing individual accomplishments. We ought to be free, associated with others just as much as it is important to succeed.
Collectivism sees society as one major family, all requiring one another. It is the ‘we’ point of view on life. We should all be associated, adaptable to the necessities of others and totally open pretty much all pieces of our life. We should endeavor to fit into society and help the aggregate gathering. The only thing that is important is that the gathering succeeds. It’s about the group. The most significant thing in life is to perform your responsibility and serve the entire society. It’s not what your nation can accomplish for you but rather what you can accomplish for your nation that issues most.
Having engaged in vetting the two perspective view on culture, I see myself as a collectivist. There is a popular saying that “two heads are better than one”. I grew up with this saying incorporated in my day to day life by parents. Today I’m more comfortable joyful working as a group to archive a single purpose
I have in most of my jobs, experienced both two perspectives of culture. I have worked in jobs that centered interest only on company profits and business goals without the interest of the employee in consideration. I also have worked jobs that prioritized employee interest, performance and success as a major contributor to the company’s growth. They tend to often value every employee contribution both the weak and strong, and sometimes placing the weak where they perfectly fit to contribute their own growth and the growth of the company
These two world perspectives may appear glaringly evident to a few. I should concede that I had never thought about them right now all before the current week’s assignments. These two points of view assist me with understanding a considerable lot of the social issues I have seen and developed to regard in colleagues I have from various societies with cultural values
References
- Estep, James R., and Jonathan H. Kim. 2010. Christian Formation, Integrating Theology and
- Human Development. B&H Publishing Group.
