The Influence of Cultural Construction

I was torn all through class today on the discussion of what does or does not have an inherent value. Coming from a class before where all we talked about was cultural construction I was hard pressed on what gives us the ability to say what is worthy of having inherent value. As we view ourselves as individuals with individualistic mindsets we do not want to believe that we decide things based upon what our culture leads us to believe. Unfortunately this is mostly always the case and it is hard to accept this claim. I just want to bring forth the idea that we do not necessarily make the final claim for what is inherently valuable and what is not. So the question of which cultural construction we agree or disagree with more present in our life then we know.