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This paper examines the theories of Dean Barnlund regarding culture and how Shirly Jackson and Maxine Kingston demonstrate Barnlund's ideas. The paper will specifically look at how culture dominates the behavior of people, how and why culture is so powerful that v ....

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.... the back doors at the same time.” (Kingston, 2). Now let us see how and why culture is so powerful that very few people realize the impact that it has on them. Barnlund shows it to us by saying that people that follow their culture will not stop to think if it is sane what they are doing and if they want to lead their lives by this certain culture. “Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action that few people ever realize the assumptions on which their lives and their sanity rest.” (Barnlund, 73). Jackson shows this point to us in her story when the villager willingly go along with the lottery, not ....