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During the week, I was reading an article about culture-bound syndrome. Basically, this talks about "disorders" that are only seen in specifical cultures, like the western culture. Two disorders they brought up were ADHD and anorexia. Although our culture says we're very liberal, we're really not. People care about how others react or view them. This leads to a certain type of reactions - a specific course of behavior or outputs. for anorexics, our input is that we have to look a certain way. The output can be that the person seeing the commericial (a possible input) has no reaction (reaction a) or starts trying to diet (reaction b).

we are in a a world where there is a box within a box within a box and then some. Our culture can be considered the mother of boxes, with all major inputs bouncing into us from our culture, and our reactions are to react within that box.  sometimes our outputs stay within the box of the culture, and sometimes it bounces out. That way, our culture ends up effecting other culture boxes - which explains why nowadays there is a rise of anorexia in the eastern culture. That makes sense, doesn't it?