Do you think that culture can change anything in this world?
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I sadly cannot recall right now in which book did u mention this but in one of your books you adressed the world we would have had america lost to comunism. The so call limits of a society are mostly impossed upon us by our parents in a process called tradition. tradition has survived out of respect. respect is a value based on the trust on the eldery. that trust is based on the wisdom that goes with age and experience.
I do not know what kind of world we would have had human history been any different, we are where we are now as a result of many small significant actions and some very important historical events. All this time i do feel mankind has been progressing towards a final goal. At the dawn of time, magic, miracles, religion explained for the misteries around us and under common faith civilizations were built. Centuries later people turnt to their gods after they discovered “knowledge”, then after the age of “religion” and the age of “knowledge”, the age of “money” arrived.
I believe that we are now entering a new age, an age of “freedom”, boundaries, limitations, traditions are falling apart. the wisdom based on experience is losing its importance, people out of fear try to stop this change with censorship bills, others such as you try to embrace it the best they can.
As traditions, race or religion stop being elements that keep us apart. what we have now is not tolerance. We have evolved beyond tolerance into understanding. We have for the first time a global culture. a global identity. I find it ironic that the most powerful nation of the world has no land, no physical extension yet it’s influence is limitless. free knowledge for ever1, this is something the capitalist industry seems to be scared of, freedom of speech for every1, this is something the communist countries are scared of. both meet as founding pillars of a new culture. This culture , will stop wars, will stop evil, will allow global open dialogue. It might take 100 years, it might take 200 years but it will happen.
the dying cultures that exist now are part of your national identity. I know all of you have a place you call home, a nation of your own, a region of your own. you are proud of that, but you also have your own values that go beyond that those of your peers, a second culture which will unite us and just as your own values and believes mean more to you than traditions and history, this second culture will weight more to you than your national 1
I think this question is a conundrum, making it a bad question to answer overall. (Although I can’t completely complain since I’ve read some good answers throughout this thread)
Nevertheless, culture & change are difficult to define and even more taxing to describe in detail. The question requires ambiguous responses to accurately address culture & change. Otherwise cultural references (mostly from personal experiences) do attempt to address the question, although they seem to respond to it incompletely.
For example, on the one extreme… (maybe this happened to you, irrespective of your location) …As I began focusing on my numerous affinities – i.e. subcultures – here in America, the writing began to flow…
…and in a direction contradictory to Paul’s question’s resolution. No body wants to read a novel by a nobody!!! So to avoid novel-length descriptions, I’ll answer this one in a short (ha!) generic manner…
Some words apply to many many things. They are used so frequently with different things in a variety of ways. As a result, these universal lingual concepts exhibit loose boundaries by definition. Verbal meaning is apparent but not always specific. Such is the nature of culture & change. Like reflection on a lake from year to year, season to season.
Culture & Change are each distinct in meaning, but their application is endless. In answering your question, we must apply “culture” to however we think of it. Our own, versus others’s, versus anyone’s. We must apply “change” to whichever direction it flows; in this case: individual-to-collective or collective-to-individual.
Throughout most of history, I’d say culture was far more rigid & unchangeable than it is today. So much so that a person would have perceived few changes to their culture in their lifetime, unless conquest or merchant trade was new to a region. In contrast, the modern world changes far more rapidly than it ever has, mostly due to the explosive growth in the human population & its dynamic interactions. It has seen divisions & novelty that is unparalleled throughout history. Essentially culture didn’t change much before. Now modern culture is changed & changes other things, …both greatly.
To ask a better question, I ask this to anyone who has an answer. Given the title of the article, I retract the word “anything” in favor of “things that don’t typically or strongly relate to culture.” The new question would read:
CAN CULTURE CHANGE THINGS THAT DON’T TYPICALLY OR STRONGLY RELATE TO CULTURE??
As an example, I would include topics for answers like law, government, principles of a religious sect, economies, global problems, mother nature, etc.
In the past, I believe that we could philosophize about whether group consciousness has the ability to affect real world events.
Today, culture MUST change something in this overpopulated & largely mismanaged world. It is essential for subcultures & larger cultures to not submit to the requirements of money-minded people or leaders with agendas that don’t try to include everyone. Culture of the masses must reclaim the right to meaningful change, otherwise it will never again be left free to change.
la cultura la tecnologia los avances en las diferentes especializaciones pueden ayudar a los pueblos sin embargo creo que la educaciòn no es de todos muchos paìses aùn viven en la completa ignorancia mas sus superiores usan armas de oro mientras el puebulo muere de ambre. Habrìa que cambiar los sentimientos de la gente pero eso es dificil un buen medio de impartir conocimiento costumbres es la tecnologìa, la computaciòn y las redes sociales ojalà cada dìa sea mas grande y algùn dìa puedas ayudar a compartir por lo menos a la mitad de los habitantes de este planeta por medio de tus libros .
Si por cultura entendemos como el estudio continuado y la adquisición de conocimientos, un aprendizaje contínuo pues yo pienso que si, ya que el necio no se atreve a desarrollar sus pensamiento e ideas el estudioso, el sabio sienten en sí un espíritu de superación en todo lo que le rodea.Es más intenta buscar significado a lo que dicen que no tiene.Es una búsqueda del conocimiento contínua.Así es como se cambia el mundo a partir de ideas y conclusiones que hace que la vida del ser humano y todo lo que rodea a éste sea un complejo cúmulo de ilusiones donde el hombre cada día experimenta una nueva sensación.Así pues puede superarse y hacer del planeta algo tan sencillo como caminos y senderos que terminan por descubrirse.Todo lo que el ser humano se propone lo consigue.
Extremely difficult to leave ones culture for another for a man and his culture are like fish and his water; he does not realize that he has been in it until he is taken out.
i think culture can influence people’s life here.But i don’t think real change will come through it because i think real change comes from with in and is individual in nature.
I work with culture every day (being dutch, working with people from Columbia, Egypt, Soedan) i think culture gives your a better reference to expand your view on our world and your own life.
Talking with so many people from different cultures opens my world further every day.
Seeing how people contribute on a daily base to enhance their lives and this community enreiches so many lives in so many ways.
so yes, i do think that culture can change the world.
it brings all the pieces off a universal jig saw together, especially when you tap into universal themes like food, love, being a mother or father.
i hope this answer helps to find the positive things instead of the same destructive forces that always lure
There’s lots of interesting points of view in this thread.
I am sure culture does change a lot of things. it is true like some of us already said culture has been created by us, but there is also a point when we started to believe we couldnt or shouldnt change culture, and perhaps that is when culture began to change Us.
then only the brave or those who didn’t care ended up changing culture maybe even without trying.
from another point of view, also I have seen change happen because of culture, try travelling to other countries or settling in some of those.. you may go where your heart takes you, because you feel better there, but it does not mean that that particular culture is more like what you are. I have definately changed, at the same time I remain the same.
people coming and going, economy, innovation and other factors affect culture too, so I am sure if I went back to where i came from, culture would have changed, also changing other things around it…
culture is a hope for a human being;
culture consists of religion paintings, ideas, activities etc
it is a road for us to follow instead of war, adression and hatred.
whenever, and whatever we take it from culture , we develop our minds and souls, a better side of us.
when a man sings , paints, writes , there is a chance that he doesn’t kill animals and other man. He sings and he is happy, he write and he fulfills himself.
Culture carries love,teaches us love, it is a gift for us.
when we are given love, we have love to give.
I define Culture as the product of a melting of many components and elements of a society that comes to identifies a group within a species. For me, culture is like nuclear fission or fusion; it can be beneficial or detrimental depending on its application. If cultures, co-exist side by each, as in a melting pot society, often the positive elements of each culture rise to the top, and are adopted my the many creating a new emerging culture. On the other hand, if cultural elements are forced upon any group, its uptake is often resisted, not necessarily for its own sake but for the methodology used to inject it on a society.
There are hundreds of example of this worldwide.
I think culture can change our HABITS but not our PRIDE !!
Hello Paulo, I don’t think culture can change the world, because we are the one to do culture, but if we are changed inside so the culture will be changed. We should be thinking in same way of Jesus.
i don’t think so…
simply because culture is not the only factor that can change things.
though culture can change some very particular things but not anything that surrounds us.
Hello. I am very glad to write on your blog, I hope you will read it.
I believe that culture can change very much on our planet. even though it would be the relationship between the Russian and Caucasian people would be friendly. Russian would be more loyal to us (Caucasians) and showed their culture, traditions of hospitality and not be chased us out of here. very much depends on the culture. communication culture, the culture of life, then what should strive to people and not be forever drunk and kill everyone in it is not clear that. Now the situation in Russia shows what is not necessary to strive! Why in other countries, culture is considered sacred (Georgia, Armenia and many others) and in Russian cultural and educated man can not find even. I myself from Georgia in me reigns of culture to many and all nations to the people around me. culture developed since ancient times but until today it has stopped its development.
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with love
Cultural differences have been a key part of the conflict in many wars.
i.e. A friend of mine while traveling in a foreign country would smile at everyone and try to make eye contact to open conversation, she was scowled at and avoided like the plague. Someone finally took pity on her and took her aside to explain that in their culture a person who smiled like that was considered rude and was making fun of other peoples misfortunes by flaunting their happiness. So a serious, somber and quiet attitude was the best way to connect.
Culture marks the factors of our character and the way we think and react to outside influences.
It is a different view …. how things can be changed :o)
the story of a neurobiologist who got a stroke & could experience the separate functioning of both brain hemispheres…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
for me, this find is a nice closure of all the discussion in this & the following topics.
christmas present :o)
hello
Culture created and practiced for many years in an area,and children of those in that culure has been learning it and pass it over to their children,
and i belive that’s the best way to keep the culture, children and education for them,
and about adults, we have to explain it for them and be logic in some points,because they are not an empty box anymore ready be filled in like children, it takes more time and we have to be really creative on that.
family planning was one of it’s illness.
so, keep the population of that culture growing and educate the children, thats he best , has been around since begining.
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