Raymond
Williams, the author of Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and Society said it
best, “Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English
Language.” Learning about different
views of culture was interesting. I enjoyed
learning about the variety of definitions people have of culture. Just the fact that it can be broken up into
culture with a capital C and culture with a small c is complex.
I
associated my definition of culture most closely to the Non-essentialist view
of culture. I believe that culture changes,
overflows, and is influenced by many things.
In my opinion culture isn’t just about geography, but more about the
happenings in the different geographical places.
One of
the quotes that stuck out to me the most was from Baumann, G. when he stated
that someone can reach across two cultures rather than being suspended between
them. This seems to be the pending
though process when someone has relocated to a new location. You have to hold on to the beliefs that you
have and add to them as you learn new things.
The
most important thing that I got out of these reading was awareness. People need to be more aware of the
uniqueness each person possesses.
Hopefully with this awareness will come tolerance, and eventually,
understanding the different doesn’t always equal wrong. ? It seems
as though the interculturalists teaching of sensitivity mostly portrays the
differences people possess instead of praising the uniqueness of each
individual.
My big question of is:
How do you teach about culture for the purpose of celebrating
uniqueness?
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