I’ve been thinking a lot recently... no; don’t be amazed, ‘I do think’. Well what has been bothering me recently is “what is the ‘correct culture’ really?” Culture’s dictionary meaning is “the ideas, customs and art of a particular society”. So what is the perfect one?Frankly speaking I have always been confused by the concept of culture… and according to my folks I lack good culture, I wish I knew what that was. Having lived in Kuwait for three fourths of my life where I was amidst people coming from different walks of life I don’t remember having been bothered about what ‘others’ are going to say or ponder over which religion or class or state the guys I checkout, or where the friends I hangout with actually came from. In fact everything was a lot less complicated than when I reached my native land Kerala in India.
India supposedly is the unique land of diversity where unity prevails. I guess to a certain extent on the surface some sort of a “we think all are the same” farce exists but I have to confess after spending about four years here even I have a small tendency to let bias creep in while interacting with people. And then there is “the culture”. This place is exceptionally gifted with a great culture so I’ve heard but I do wonder “Is a ‘culture’ that has no capability of tolerating new things a great culture?” A place where you can’t move around without inviting comments from people who are more interested in your business than their own and who won’t be there at the time you need some help… do they have the perfect culture?
All these ofcourse could be anywhere in the world too that is why I’m of the opinion that we can never say that the culture a particular society has, is ever perfect or the correct one. People’s ideas, customs etc. maybe good or bad, just the thing is no one has any right to say which the correct one is because of the plain reason that no one declared us the ‘God’.
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