On cultural resistance
March 19th 2008 18:37
Well, some comments on the subject.
I consider cultural resistance all those events or cultural work made to avoid that some kind of rite that was common in a certain community become history.
Why do people do this? To avoid cultural domination, mainly. Considering the technologies we have nowadays, you have access to culture (art, ideas, etc) being made anywhere in the world. This creates a huge "concurence" in therms of culture. That concurrence becomes a resistance (or at least starts being called like this) when the other side is getting too important.
Well, this "economical" approach makes me think that the best answer to the subject is not to "resist", but to embrace and use it. There is also the fact that it makes no sense in "resistance" in therms of culture, anyway it evolves all the time.
So, any cultural rite, instead of calling himself a resistance of a people to be "dominated" by others, should get the best from the other and use it in his favour, so that it's own culture evolves.
You see the romans for example, instead of destroing the greek culture they used it to create their on set of gods. The japanese embraced technology with so much passion that nowadays you see it as a part of their culture. And so on.
Please, i remind that diversity is an awesome thing. I'm not selling that we should "leave the best one win".
cheers.
I consider cultural resistance all those events or cultural work made to avoid that some kind of rite that was common in a certain community become history.
Why do people do this? To avoid cultural domination, mainly. Considering the technologies we have nowadays, you have access to culture (art, ideas, etc) being made anywhere in the world. This creates a huge "concurence" in therms of culture. That concurrence becomes a resistance (or at least starts being called like this) when the other side is getting too important.
Well, this "economical" approach makes me think that the best answer to the subject is not to "resist", but to embrace and use it. There is also the fact that it makes no sense in "resistance" in therms of culture, anyway it evolves all the time.
So, any cultural rite, instead of calling himself a resistance of a people to be "dominated" by others, should get the best from the other and use it in his favour, so that it's own culture evolves.
You see the romans for example, instead of destroing the greek culture they used it to create their on set of gods. The japanese embraced technology with so much passion that nowadays you see it as a part of their culture. And so on.
Please, i remind that diversity is an awesome thing. I'm not selling that we should "leave the best one win".
cheers.
| 55 |
| Vote |
Shared on
Subscribe to this blog
