Question

Suppose you are on an overseas trip with friends and prefer homestays to hotel rooms. at one homestay, the hosts invite you to dinner, serving up a meal of couscous, steamed vegetables, and roast dog. you are uncomfortable with the inclusion of dog meat on the menu, in large part because you grew up with a dog as a beloved pet. you recognize that these disparate understandings of dog as meat versus dog as pet are a case of differences in

Answer 1

This event could be understood as a case of assigned meaning. That is to say, the dog might represent different things for each of the individual. For one of the it represents food and for the other it represents a pet. This idea is connected to culture, the representation of the dog will depende on the culture  and how the relationship dog-human works in that culture.