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Bobby Ma
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Culture matters!
January 25, 2007 - 12:51 AM
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It may sound somewhat abstract when you talk about culture in front of young people, but whenver you practise something in your daily life, you find, culture matters.
Let's share some cultural tips in your daily life here!
This post was edited on: 2007-01-25 at 03:39 AM by: sunshinenyc
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Re: Culture matters!
February 6, 2007 - 01:54 PM
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Nice idea..
Still could you elaborate a little on the 'cultural tips' you are hinting at so that it is easier for the members to contribute to the discussion ...
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Re: Culture matters!
February 9, 2007 - 03:34 AM
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Culture has to do with everything we do. Culture helps guide us in the right direction. With out culture we won't know where we've been, so we won't know where we're going.
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Re: Culture matters!
February 22, 2007 - 10:01 PM
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yes, that´s true but culture is also volence, racism , culture is not to be taken so lightly. I makes you the person you are but it also makes the media and governments act the way they do...
I´m actually a culture freak and this is a subject that really interests me.
A little part of culture is e.g. the spices you put in your food, the stories you tell while sitting next to a bondfire, the songs you sing...all these little things are also part of culture...
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Re: Culture matters!
February 24, 2007 - 04:16 PM
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cynexx wrote:
yes, that´s true but culture is also volence, racism , culture is not to be taken so lightly. I makes you the person you are but it also makes the media and governments act the way they do...
I´m actually a culture freak and this is a subject that really interests me.
A little part of culture is e.g. the spices you put in your food, the stories you tell while sitting next to a bondfire, the songs you sing...all these little things are also part of culture...
All this and more make up our culture especially the one that we classafile our self or the one poeple put us with. I'm a culture freak all that stuff interests me.
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Re: Culture matters!
March 6, 2007 - 03:45 PM
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i love studying about other cultures
it's amazing
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Re: Culture matters!
March 7, 2007 - 03:01 AM
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ofcourse culture matters..cause it provides structure, standards & value system...
but do cultures matter more than religions?
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Re: Culture matters!
March 8, 2007 - 09:13 AM
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Shahpara wrote:
but do cultures matter more than religions?
hmm...
interesting question. I consider myself areligious - not party to any organised belief. i'm not sure we can place importance on one or the other because i think that culture - as a way of life - covers religion. i think we tend to choose an aspect of our lifestyle to focus on, say the arts or spirituality etc.
so I seem to be saying that religion is part of a way of life therefore part of culture. And in this day and age most of us are multi-cultured with the web, media, et al bringing everybody's lifestyle to the fore...
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Re: Culture matters!
March 9, 2007 - 05:12 AM
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For one not to experience culture shock whemn visiting peolpe of different culture from yours,learn to first of all appreciate ur own culture then acceot that different peoplkle have their own cultural practices and way of life and even though some of these practices may be annoying to you the first step towards accptance and appreciation of other peolpes culture is that your cultural issues and practices may also sound weird to other parts of the world,so it is easier when we appreciate each others cultures.
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Re: Culture matters!
March 15, 2007 - 04:11 PM
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I've been thinking about culture quite a bit in the past few days, just how pretty much everything we do reflects our culture in some way. The way I act toward others, what I do in my spare time... there's so much in our different cultures that you're supposed to know, and if you don't know them (like if you weren't born here and haven't been raised this way), you might not be accepted.
It'd be great to share some cultural "specialties" from our different cultures!
Swedes, for example (good example, since that's what my nationality is), are often seen as quite "cold" people, ie we don't just talk to people we don't know and it can be pretty hard to get to know someone here. On the bus for example we avoid sitting next to somebody else, and if we do we definitely don't talk. Although I think most of us would usually appreciate a nice conversation. But nobody would initiate one. That's the way we are. Of course these are generalizations and don't account for everybody. And then of course many Swedes today are not actually born in Sweden but have immigrated from other countries, making the word "Swede" a lot more diverse...
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Re: Culture matters!
March 16, 2007 - 12:21 PM
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sometimes it gets really frustrating ....as people tend to stereotype or assume things about you just by the way you look...
If I say I am coming from India....immediately there are some hundred assumptions about my personality and if I say I am an Indian studying in Europe then ...there are different assumptions....
I wish there was a way to avoid these cultural traps... it could really save a lot of time which is spent on explanation 
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Re: Culture matters!
March 19, 2007 - 09:44 AM
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I guess there's a difference between personal culture and social culture. We are trapped in "social culture" which, I agree is quite disappointing. But we can always examine our own personal culture: how do we react at certain things, who do we follow, what our idiosyncracies.
A sample of a social culture: A lot still practice this in my country. When someone knocks on your door and you have a suprise visitor, that visitor is lucky. That person gets the best room (usually the one with aircondition), the best food, the best comfort that visitor can ever get. In short, visitors are treated highly. This is the same reason why we were colonized by the Spaniards. They thought Filipinos were naturally "servants" or "slaves". The pre-colonial Filipinos treated them like kings or gods which were very common whenever they had visitors.
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Re: Culture matters!
March 19, 2007 - 11:36 AM
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Katea wrote:
I guess there's a difference between personal culture and social culture. We are trapped in "social culture" which, I agree is quite disappointing. But we can always examine our own personal culture: how do we react at certain things, who do we follow, what our idiosyncracies.
A sample of a social culture: A lot still practice this in my country. When someone knocks on your door and you have a suprise visitor, that visitor is lucky. That person gets the best room (usually the one with aircondition), the best food, the best comfort that visitor can ever get. In short, visitors are treated highly. This is the same reason why we were colonized by the Spaniards. They thought Filipinos were naturally "servants" or "slaves". The pre-colonial Filipinos treated them like kings or gods which were very common whenever they had visitors.
This reminds me of the Indian culture.
In Sanskrit we have this saying ..."Atithi Devo bhava" which means " Guest is God"
We just welcomed everyone ... without even considering their motives.
I remember that when I was a kid, at my grandfather's place the front door was never locked, not even at night ....
Nowadays nobody dares to do that because of the fear of thieves.
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Re: Culture matters!
March 20, 2007 - 05:47 AM
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anuriandima84 wrote:
sometimes it gets really frustrating ....as people tend to stereotype or assume things about you just by the way you look...
If I say I am coming from India....immediately there are some hundred assumptions about my personality and if I say I am an Indian studying in Europe then ...there are different assumptions....
I wish there was a way to avoid these cultural traps... it could really save a lot of time which is spent on explanation *
I had a bunch of people over for lunch on Sunday - there was one from the US, two from Germany, one from Holland and three from Sweden. It was really cool to just meet and share about differences and such... But I realized that I do exactly that - I stereotype people and assume things that I don't really know about. Like I made this comment about how pretty much everybody in the States owns a gun... but the American guy explained that that's just not true, they don't own guns any more than we do in Sweden... which made me feel pretty ignorant and realize just how much influence media has on us...
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Re: Culture matters!
March 20, 2007 - 11:09 AM
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This reminds me of the Indian culture.
In Sanskrit we have this saying ..."Atithi Devo bhava" which means " Guest is God"
We just welcomed everyone ... without even considering their motives.
I remember that when I was a kid, at my grandfather's place the front door was never locked, not even at night ....
Nowadays nobody dares to do that because of the fear of thieves.
Philippines was also influenced by India during our Pre-Spanish era. during the 11th and 12thc century there were Buddha statues in our country brought by Indians and Chinese. But when the Spaniards came, they were either sold or buried.
The hospitality, some theorists say, was because of the creation myth where, Pre-colonial Filipinos thought that God made five siblings: black, brown, yellow, red, and whites. The whites were their long lost brothers. So when the Spaniards came, there was a big feast.
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