Folkways and Ethnocentrism

A folkway is doing something that wont hurt someone else, but you just don't usually do it. The other night my girlfriends and I went out to dinner. My one friend only had eleven dollars and her bill came out to twelve ninety-four, so she searched through her bag for loose change. We all gave her our change too, but when the waitress came to take our money she seemed a lot happier to see my debit card rather than all of Caitlin's change.

Something else reminded me of sociology last week, and it was ethnocentrism. It means to judge someones culture, in a mean way. For example people say Indians smell bad. On the show Jersey Shore the group of people that live in the house are Italian. It was on at my house when some one decided to say "ohh yea all Italians wana do is GTL (gym, tan, laundry) and party!" Which is not true because my family does other things normal families do.