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@avocagodo
I just want to remind you that sometimes your life really doesn't begin until you are 26+... Romanticizing and obsessing over our youth is harmful. Growing up is beautiful. Discovering who you are and how you interact with the world is a gift. Maturing and learning what you truly want out of life and living in that purpose brings fulfillment and peace. Your life is not over in your early 20's because you haven't figured it out yet, it's just beginning.
Learning a language = learning a culture
To truly understand a language and the people speaking that language, you also have to make a conscious effort to learn about the culture and history of these people. I know that the cultures of the countries where a language is spoken can be very different (e.g. Mexico vs. Spain, France vs. all African states where French is spoken, and even England vs. Ireland vs. Australia), so these suggestions work best if you have a specific target country in mind.
Here are some ideas on where to start:
look at the political system of your target country/culture: how does it work? Who are the most important people right now? Is there a monarchy?
look at the (broad) history of your target country/culture: since when is it an official country? Has it been in any wars? If so, with who and why? Was this country ever colonised or a coloniser?
research the most popular TV shows from the last 20 - 30 years and watch some of them
find out the most popular sport of this target country/culture and the culture surrounding it
research the holidays and how they are celebrated and whether there are any special holidays & what they mean to your target country/culture
watch some movies and TV shows that were made in your target country/culture, so you can get insights into the everyday lives of these people and how they interact
watch/read some news of your target country to find out what’s happening there right now & what the most important topics are for them
research how the school & education system works
research how the healthcare system works
research the typical cuisine of your target country/culture
find out whether there is some kind of traditional wear, its history, and what it means to the people
find out whether there are any indigenous people living in your target country, what their history is, and how they are perceived/treated in the country’s society nowadays
are there any stereotypes about this country/culture? Research whether or not they are true and why they exist in the first place
find out whether there is some kind of traditional folk music. Listen to it and find out its history and what it means to your target country/culture
what are the main religions of your target country/culture and how incorporated are their practices in society?
are there any social divides in your target country/culture? If so, what are they based on?
how is your target country’s relationship to its neighbouring countries?
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If you have any other ideas or suggestions, feel free to comment or reblog!
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What are your thoughts on cultural appropriation?
I think it’s often exaggerated to hell as I’ve seen it on tumblr. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist, though.
A white person wearing a kimono won’t singlehandedly kill the Japanese population, and is in fact often seen (with good reason) to be respectful. A lot of Japanese people like foreigners wearing their clothing - they’ll give them as gifts, help them put them on and be delighted that someone is embracing this little part of their culture.
You know what’s cultural appropriation? Taking something of historical or religious significance and making fun of it or outright desecrating it (looking at YOU, j-law in hawaii), simplifying something to an outright offensive portrayal of what it actually is instead of looking into the significance of it (see: geisha, who have slowly become to be associated with ‘comfort women’ or courtesans because of how ‘exotic’ they were perceived to be), racism (wearing a sombrero hat is all in good fun, but when it accompanies blackface / racist remarks, stereotypes + accents, not so much ), and lumping cultures with a common signifier (native american reservations, asian countries, african countries) and heavily misattributing things to them based on assumptions and rumors, which are often racist, especially things that might be practiced or be more common than your average American state, but absolutely do not represent them in any way and sometimes aren’t even a cultural thing at all. (China and eating dog; Indians being scam callers and/or inherently misogynistic, etc)
There is no reason for culture not to be shared and embraced in a respectful way – even ignorant, if the person is willing to listen and learn – and there is nothing inherently wrong, in my opinion, if culture just happens to be a tourist attraction, sometimes. Take pictures to your delight, so long as you’re not banned from doing so. Do yoga and find inner peace or whatever. Participate in tradition and be amazed, amused, poke a little fun because culture is bound to be different from what you’re used to and it’s not always considered good, it’s not always awe-inspiring, sometimes it’ll be a little silly and you’re not obligated to fully immerse yourself into appreciating it - sometimes you just experience it and move on with your life.
We are what we are because of the way culture has evolved, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to take some random user’s icy take on gatekeeping at face value.
As an anthropologist: fucking thank you!
I also want to make a quick note on the term “cultural appropriation” itself: It is not by definition a bad thing.
Cultural appropriation is, simply, doing something that is common to another culture but not your own. Human beings have been appropriating each others’ cultures since one Neanderthal looked over at what another Neanderthal was doing and said, “Nifty.”
A Swede learning to cook stir-fry is cultural appropriation. A Korean eating pizza is cultural appropriation. An American wearing a kimono to a festival in Japan is cultural appropriation. But that’s fine! There’s nothing wrong with sharing ways of doing things, there’s nothing wrong with participating, especially when the sharing of knowledge/methodology improves people’s lives!
What isn’t fine is, as OP said, being disrespectful. Treating sacred objects as decoration is not okay. Misusing terminology is not okay. Forcing a group into a debt to you specifically to the point where they have to make and sell you cultural objects for a pittance, and then turning around and selling those objects to tourists and making bank is not okay.
What also isn’t fine is seeing a picture of someone whom you assume to be white wearing a sari and bitching her out because you don’t know that she’s half American and half Indian and that’s her fucking sari. What isn’t fine is seeing an American at a festival in Japan and bitching him out because you don’t know that his Japanese friends dressed him up for the festival because Western clothes would be totally out of place. What isn’t fine is speaking over minorities as you try to “defend” them from what you deem to be bad behaviour when your judgement is based in your own ethnocentrism.
Human beings are curious creatures. We’re always going to want to see what the other guy’s doing. There’s nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is taking advantage of the other guy or spitting on the things that are important to him. And that’s equally true when someone is saying “Stop abusing our culture” and when someone is saying “Please participate in our culture.”
So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.
Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.
“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”
One time I was proof reading a paper for a Russian student. As I was correcting her paper with her, the many mistakes in her grammar started weighing on her. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, almost sobbing,
“In Russian I am so intelligent and clear. In English I am like [an] idiot”
Respect to anyone trying to master a foreign language. I get so sad thinking about that student.
Full offense but people who make fun of someone else’s accent or belittle their limited vocabulary when they’re speaking a language not native to them are fucking disgusting and are just begging to be punched.
They’re speaking your language because you don’t know theirs. That’s not something they should be made fun of, it’s something that should be commended because learning a language is hard fucking work.
I hate people who do this so much.
Move and live at your own pace. Just as important, live for YOU!
but see, nobody has a single, original, essential identity, we all just make it up. everyone recreates themselves as their circumstances change, everyone absorbs elements from others, everyone projects a false face because there is no true face. when your parents named you, they knew nothing about who you’d turn out to be. every atom of you gets replaced multiple times along the way, but somehow there you are, still pretending to be that person with that name. so really, aren’t we all impostors here? no wait get away from the airlock eject button i’m not finished yet
"One of the most prevalent obstacles in our ability to heal and self-actualise is when our productivity is tied to our worthiness."
I think the studyblr community especially needs to hear this. You don't have to be productive all the time, you need rest. Recovering from internalised capitalism means unpicking all the messages from family, friends, school and workplace that have reinforced the idea that you are a commodity, and that your worth is based on what you do. Your worth is inherent.
Source: therapywithlee
7 Rules of Life
1. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
2. What others think of you is none of your business.
3. Time heals almost everything; give it time.
4. Don`t compare your life to others`, and don`t judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
5. Stop thinking too much; it`s alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it.
6. No-one is in charge of your happiness, except you.
7. Smile. You don`t own all the problems in the world.
Source: Whisper of the heart.
“You don’t have to become a master at everything all at once. Just focus on mastering one thing at a time, From one day to the next, From each moment to another. Relax. Just take it one step at a time.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
The illusion of choice.
Most of us are already familiar with this term, the illusion of choice.
In the industry, this means thinking you are able to choose from many options, a movie for example, you could choose to watch DC, marvel or StarWars.
In this example you have 3 different brands so logically you will have 3 different choices, 3 different companies you could support by watching or buying your favourite merch. But in reality you don't. Out of those options, 2 belong to the same company.
StarWars and Marvel belong to Disney and DC belongs to Warner Bros.
We could say the same thing about our lives. Often we see different options but once you eyed them throughout, you find that only one or two of those options are available.
But still people will claim you made the final decision.
This can happen in many cases, study, jobs, spouses....
We often end up trying to find what would be the lesser evil instead of really standing up for ourselves. What choice would please me. If it isn't on the possible list, how can I deal with this without muting myself. Maybe someone's advice or an unorthodox route could be a solution.
not you
nice picture, body, career or better pay, life or partner. We can’t help ourselves, the grass always seems brighter on our screens but we often forget to ask ourselves a few questions. -How did that person become so successful/ skilled? -What isn’t tey shoving? -are their lives really so much better than ours? I have seen so many posts talk about gratitude. But here’s the catch, what should you feel grateful for if all you feel is greed, envy and jealousy? If this is your case, you will barely find anything. This doesn’t mean your life is awful and you are a failure, it only means you have become trapped. You quoted looking at your life through pink glasses. Yes, this customer was a jerk and I’ll have to deal with him again, yes my dog misplaced his smelly present on my new carpet. Yes, my day wasn’t the most pleasant BUT, I had that one cupcake I save from yesterdays breakfast. We focus so much on the bigger picture, we forget to look for small things who might have been brightening our day even if they seem minuscule.
Age
Why should age be important? To get this straight. YES, it is, if you need to know how old that person you are interested in is. If you need to know if they’re adult it matters. but for the rest? not so much. we focus so much on what we should do, look, be and have archived at any given age, without second-guessing any of it. By doing so we reduce people to a number, taking away everything that makes them real. By doing such an inhuman thing we refuse to acknowledge where they came from, I am not talking about origins but router about their path. Not everyone has the chance to live a straight forwards line, be healthy or exactly know what they want to do. Some of us struggle greatly throughout their lives. Those who battled and walked through all of it or at least take the first steps to make their lives a better version of what originally got handed out to them, usually end up having more skills and dedication. But instead of acknowledging all of this, we reduce them, creating even more anxiety in the process. Too many times I had the pleasure to be pushed away from something I deeply desired only because I was too young or old, and even calling me young or old wasn’t consistent, it entirely depended on that person's point of view. For example, at 17 I choose to leave my high school not because I was failing, my grades were in the middle and I had already successfully passed half of my final exams. The reason I decided to leave was my mental health, I was depressed and slowly slipping into a direction I really wished I wouldn’t know of even today. At first, I looked at the different option to leave my school and maybe continue over homeschooling since this would grant me enough time to take care of myself and seek professional help. It wouldn’t have been pricey either, 800€ for the whole year including exams and documents. So I did the most reasonable thing, I talked with my mom and my teacher. Their responses should have warned me... My teacher understood and said it was a great idea and I was mature enough to decide what was best for myself. On the other hand, my mom immediately told me of, preaching about how bad it would look on my cv and how hard it would be for me to continue and how irresponsible I am and how she wouldn’t be able to take care of m studies on top of her job. This was at 17, I still left school the very same year, but not only did I leave my education but I also moved out. Started working 10 hours a day 6 days a week. And only once I had to leave my job due to health issues she came running back telling me how great it would be if I finished my last highschoolö year over homeschooling. The difference? I was 1 year older. I wasn’t more responsible than before, the only change that had occurred was this little number changing. my age had changed her view. I didn’t choose this example so anyone would feel sorry for me, but to demonstrate how silly taking age into account can be! And still, here we are, using our age as a reference to tell us where and who we should be. Stopping ourselves from being our best version.
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.
— Haruki Murakami
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