Culture helps to defines peoples’ worldviews, and the idea that a whole, if divided into its parts looses its Gestalt (which is a form in this context). Following this logic, a person cannot be removed from his culture without loosing the person as he experiences himself in the process. In other words, people and therefore personalities, do not operate outside a cultural context. Another theme that has been explored in this course is that every individual person is a culture; Cultural contexts may affect personality, psychology in a very broad sense.

What do you people think about it? Opinions please. :)

I somewhat agree with your point...culture does define us as people and as a person. I'll share you my point of view. We are a bukharian family that live in Kansas, a state that has a very small bukharian community ( 5 -6 families total), nothing like NY. Since the very first day that we moved here, we always felt so isolated and so withdrawn from our Bukharian community and our culture. Its very hard to maintain what you are used to in a place like Kansas, especially when you were raised and brought up in such a traditional Bukharian home and community. Nevertheless, we are able to continue living accourding to our Bukharian culture and try our best to maintain the same lifestyle that we had back home with only 5 Bukharian families. So we may have lost our "Gestalt" as u call it in a sence that we are separated from the "whole Bukharian community," but we are not "lost as a person", meaning we still live like a Bukharian family following all of our traditions and culture. We function very well "outside a cultural context" by creating and maintaining our Bukharian culture at our homes.

"Every individual person is a culture, cultural contexts may affect personality, psychology in a very broad sense"...totally agree with this point. Again, I base this on my view of myself. I value my Bukharian identity and never in my whole life tried to blend or assimilate into the american lifestyle of my peers in my new home (Kansas). Some of my coworkers and friends consider my personality and our bukharian traditions as "odd" and "old-fashioned," but nevertheless they respect me and are fascinated that I am able to keep these cultural traditions in a modern world, living at this day and age in a place like Kansas. Its hard but its doable, like they say if there is will, there is a way :)