Elements of Deep Culture
Deep Culture is the component of culture that can not be seen nor can it be taught. These are factors that are usually passed down from generation to generation. This chart was found in the textbook, "Fundamentals of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in K-12 Mainstream Classrooms" by Hanizah Zainuddin, Carmen A. Morales-Jones, Noorchaya Yahya, and Eileen N WHelan Ariza. This chart can be found on page 17.
Aesthetics - the beautiful things of culture: literature, music, dance, art, architecture, and how they are used.
Ceremony - what a person is to say and do on particular occasions
Courtship and Marriage - attitudes toward dating, marriage, and raising a family.
Ethics - how a person learns and practices honesty, fair play, principles, moral thought, etc.
Family Ties - how a person reacts to sickness, death, soundness of mind and body, medicine, etc.
Health and Medicine - How a person feels toward his or her family, friends, classmates, roommates, and others.
Folk Myths - Attitudes towards heroes, traditional stories, legendary characters, superstitions, etc.
Gesture and Kinesics - Forms of nonverbal communication or reinforced speech, such as the use of the eyes, the hands, and the body.
Grooming and Presence - The cultural differences in personal behavior and appearance such as laughter, smile, voice quality, gait, poise, hair style, cosmetics, dress, etc.
Ownership - Attitudes towards ownership or property, individual rights, loyalties, beliefs, etc.
Precedence - What are acceptable manners towards old persons, peers, and younger persons?
Rights and Duties - Attitudes towards personal obligations, voting, taxes, military service, legal rights, personal demands, etc.
Religion - Attitudes toward the divine and the supernatural and how they affect a person's thoughts and actions.
Sex Roles - How a person views, understands, and relates to members of the opposite sex wand what deviations are allowed and expected.
Spaces and Proxemics - Attitudes towards self and land; the accepted distance between individuals within culture.
Subsistence - Attitudes about providing for oneself, the young, and the old and who protects them.
Taboos - Attitudes and beliefs about doing things against culturally accepted patterns.
Concepts of Time - Attitudes towards being early, on time, or being late.
Values - Attitudes towards freedom, education, cleanliness, cruelty, crime, etc.
Aesthetics - the beautiful things of culture: literature, music, dance, art, architecture, and how they are used.
Ceremony - what a person is to say and do on particular occasions
Courtship and Marriage - attitudes toward dating, marriage, and raising a family.
Ethics - how a person learns and practices honesty, fair play, principles, moral thought, etc.
Family Ties - how a person reacts to sickness, death, soundness of mind and body, medicine, etc.
Health and Medicine - How a person feels toward his or her family, friends, classmates, roommates, and others.
Folk Myths - Attitudes towards heroes, traditional stories, legendary characters, superstitions, etc.
Gesture and Kinesics - Forms of nonverbal communication or reinforced speech, such as the use of the eyes, the hands, and the body.
Grooming and Presence - The cultural differences in personal behavior and appearance such as laughter, smile, voice quality, gait, poise, hair style, cosmetics, dress, etc.
Ownership - Attitudes towards ownership or property, individual rights, loyalties, beliefs, etc.
Precedence - What are acceptable manners towards old persons, peers, and younger persons?
Rights and Duties - Attitudes towards personal obligations, voting, taxes, military service, legal rights, personal demands, etc.
Religion - Attitudes toward the divine and the supernatural and how they affect a person's thoughts and actions.
Sex Roles - How a person views, understands, and relates to members of the opposite sex wand what deviations are allowed and expected.
Spaces and Proxemics - Attitudes towards self and land; the accepted distance between individuals within culture.
Subsistence - Attitudes about providing for oneself, the young, and the old and who protects them.
Taboos - Attitudes and beliefs about doing things against culturally accepted patterns.
Concepts of Time - Attitudes towards being early, on time, or being late.
Values - Attitudes towards freedom, education, cleanliness, cruelty, crime, etc.