In class this week, we discussed the concept of "social construction of reality". This is the idea that people, or society, comes up with unspoken rules about what is acceptable. We get many of our opinions about things based on what society has taught us is OK or not OK. In class, we used the example of saliva vs. spit. They are the same thing. But somehow, our society has decided that the fact that the saliva is outside of your mouth, that it is suddenly not OK. You can also see an example of this in the things that we eat. In our society, we eat hot dogs and ham and all kinds of meat that we see as acceptable. But in other countries, they eat meats like dog and they think that that is fine to do. However, in America, we are shocked because we see dogs as pets and not meat. That's what our society said is not an alright thing to do. Each Society is different as to what is what is socially acceptable and what is not. But every area has their ideas and expectations.