Response paper 2

1.How do your beliefs, values, and culture upbringing influence the way you behave?
2.How does it feel when others see you as different-as an outsider?
3.How do others’ beliefs, values, and culture upbringing influence the way they behave?

Response

1. My beliefs influence a lot in the way I behave, since I believe they are the most important issue for me because my mother remained and still remains on that, so it is inside of my heart and my soul.
Most of the time I guide my life based on what I learned from the Bible, which gives me reasons to respect others, and in some cases it helps me to control myself,and my temperament.




2. Well, actually I might say that when I was in some foreign countries,locals have not seen me as an outsider, they treated me well, and they were very kind. Nonethe less, sometimes I feel like as an outsider here in my country, it is because now a days we have a lot of foreigners who have the same rights and guarantees as costa rican have; there is not a difference between them and us. They can do whatever they want, without rules, without limits…that makes feel as an outsider, and when we don’t like what they do, they argue, and they find that they can be free here, so I realized that we do not have any priority in this country, all of us are the same, that makes me feel as an outsider, also they treat us as outsiders, for example, there many people from other countries working in down town San José; They are selling things in the middle of the crosswalk, in Plaza de la Cultura, on the streets of Mercado Central, and they do not leave space to walk, so the situation is that every time Costa rican police officers come to those places to tell them that they must leave; they get angry, they hit, kick, and hurt the police officers, arguing that they need to eat, and that the governor must understand their problems, so this is not our country any more, we are the outsiders, and they are the owners .
Moreover, another issue that makes me feel as an outside is the fact that if we want to go to some of their countries; we have to get a visa, we have to pay, we cannot work there, and when they come here, Costa Rican government does not ask them for anything (proper documents); they can live here, they can work here without any problem, they can buy a house and nobody is going to take them out.… so that makes me feel as an outsider in my own country.

3.Well, I think that of course, values, believes, and culture influence that way others behave; for example I have a friend who is from Japon; once I invited him to come to the beach with me, I am 6 years older than him, and I knew that he loved Costa Rica's beaches, but I noticed that he was uncomfortable about coming with me, then I knew that in his country is disrespectful that a man goes out , or share with a girl that is older than him since they have to treat them as old ladies, with respect, and the only contact they can have is a greeting.
So,I understood that their custom, their background make them different, and sometimes we could not understand their behaviors.