Unwrapping Culture: How My Heritage Shapes My Worldview

3 days ago

Growing up in a home that didn't do much with tradition didn't stop me from learning about my culture because my environment and the people I had around didn't let me grow without learning a thing or two from them. I remember when I was little, every encounter with a new friend of same culture, I would learn something new about them.

Honestly, the journey to learning my culture and actually putting some to practice was not fun for me. The only fun part in my culture and that will still remain in my lifetime is, the music. I love music so naturally, I enjoy how unique my people sing songs in our language. I know a few of our songs and they all hold lovely memories for me.

Considering that I'm not that deep into the cultural way of life, I don't feel sad about it because I think culture goes beyond the language, festivals, the food (one of my favourite part) and other aspects that makes up the culture we all know in our heads. But what culture is that many do not think to see it as is, Building Morals.

The fact that I learned to show respect through my culture, live better with people through my culture and dress well through my culture, I'll say it's the major thing I appreciate my culture for. Not just my culture, I admire the yoruba culture for the same reason but with a few limitations. Culture has taught so much about morals really.

While people try to make me feel bad for not being able to speak the language of my culture, I remind myself that it isn't all that matters to uphold one's culture. I mean, it would have been great if I was good with my language but it didn't happen that way and I still appreciate every other aspects my culture has helped shaped me today.

I appreciate and love my culture for many reasons with the foods and morals they build as the top on my list but I also admire other cultures around and abroad. I've even admired the English culture at some point because I always wondered if they had any stuff like festivals as other cultures does, was shocked to know it's a culture.

The Korean culture is in my top five admired cultures in the world, from their foods to morals to festivals as seen in their movies, I love everything and even though I don't think I would ever participate in their festivals if I ever get the chance, I'll definitely love to watch from afar lol. Their foods are my top on the list to try out too.

Culture reminds me of how diverse and beautiful the world is, from the beautiful colours of native dressings, the sounds of different languages in music and conversations, the amazing tastes of different native meals, and the morals they are building or maintaining around the world is a beauty to behold, uphold and appreciate always.

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20 comments

@brofi48

3 days ago

I wonder how you will try out the food, lol. This is Hope. 🙂‍↔️

Well, it’s beautiful that you don’t let one part spoil the others for you. There are so many things our culture has taught us and they are helpful and constructive. The language part is painful but like you said, it’s not something that is in our control so we won’t let it stop us from appreciating the other aspects.

!PIMP

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