Culture....We're All Apart Of It......!!

We have reached our penultimate topic this week, and also quite possibly one the most varied topics to cover as Ruth 2009 says "We could talk about this forever" but i am not going to that,from the previous blog about children we can begin to understand just small concepts that can be picked up in marketing, after all cultures are often set by their generation by this i mean for example here in the UK at the beginning of this century it was about the Chav and now as we move on almost a decade the Emo has risen. Take a look at the list below;

• People’s perceptions of what is right and wrong
  
• Family values
  
• Society’s values and attitudes
  
• Community learning Communal or collective memory
  

These are all areas that we have covered over the last few months and you can now see how everything is starting to intertwine and come to an end result if you haven't already that is.

A great man once said "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive" Mahatma Gandhi, which if you look at the world today people have learnt to accept new cultures and in some cases even becoming part of them by marrying into a different culture or having children with a person from a different culture some people are even going out of their way to learn about and understand different cultures.
One thing i have noticed is that all cultures have something in common with another culture, whether that be from the colours of the robes worn by Hindu Priests and the colour of the Shaolin Monk dress wear.

There are millions of examples,from music right through to religion but to write them all out would be CRAZY! I have written about cultural similarities but there are also some massive cultural differences please watch the videos below to see just a few of them;

RUDE

POLITE?

THE GERMANS

The last Video brings me on to stereotyping which can be summed up in a few sentences this was found by Ruth and written by Daniel B.Holeman

" Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organised by the Italians."

Understandably with thousands of cultures across the globe i am sure i can be forgiven for writing about them all? I have put some links below to sites that would help to explain certain aspects of different cultures.,

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/cultures.htm

http://www.cultures.com/ on this site click on the LINKS

http://www.freewebs.com/worldcultures/

The last site is probably the best one it allows you to see how the same nationalities seem to adapt differently to they're cultural surroundings depending on where they are on the planet take a look its very interesting,it also shows what is on offer from each culture in that specific country from Construction companies to Dance troops.

It would appear that there would be two main culture types in the UK that i can see High Culture and Pop Culture...... Both of these were taken from Wikidpedia.......

Popular culture (pop culture) ideas, perspectives and attitudes that are more easily accepted or if you like preferred within a given culture. Which have been heavily influenced by mass media (at least from the early 20th century on) although pop culture was recognised decades ago it has now become more mainstream than ever with the use of television,magazines and music, this collection of ideas affects the everyday lives of the society. Pop culture is often seen as being "dumbed-down" in order to accepted by society.

High culture is a term, now used in a number of different ways in academic discourse, whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture. Matthew Arnold defined culture as "the disinterested endeavour after man's perfection".

Does culture take us back to the weeks of where we spoke about class? What do you think? Post a comment and let me know,i hope this was a good read and before i go watch these videos if you have the time........You will learn more than going on Facebook.......

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