Framing Rules

Framing rules is defined as “the emotional meaning of situations.” What this mean is that how we see a situation, whether good or bad, depends on our backgrounds and cultural settings. Take for example a funeral. Western ways of thing suggests that funerals is a “sad and respectful occasions” while people like Irish may see funerals as a chance for the dead person to go to a better place and in most instances funerals are not thought of as being a sad time, but rather a joyous occasion. Instead of crying on the day of the funeral, friends and families of the departed individual will most probably tell stories about the person and “celebrate his or her life.” Likewise, some African tribes believe death is a “person’s passage to a better form of life.” Buddhist followers concur with this idea, provided that they believe people resume their life in different forms. All in all, how a person reacts to a certain situation varies from culture to culture and from home to home.

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