CEM210 - Critical and Cultural Appreciation

After the Cultural Management unit in level 1, I found that culture has no single definition, everybody seems to have different ideas about ‘what culture is’. Starting this new module, i’ve realised that culture is even more complex than I first thought. 

When i’m thinking of culture in a broad sense, nationality is the first thing that comes to mind, where you’re from and how you are brought up plays a big part of your culture. 

The second thing that comes to my mind is literacy, film, art and music, this is because I see the word ‘culture’ mostly when reading the culture section in the newspapers. This sort of culture is subjective, this means we’re independent because we choose what we like and what we don’t like, its not just about what your brought up listen to, reading and watching.

Talking to the students in the seminars made me see that I have a typical British culture but like so many other young people I try to become more individual by diversifying my culture. I do this by seeing different cultures and going abroad, I also listen to music that I didn’t listen to growing up. 

In this country we are fortunate because there is a diverse range of cultures and we are allowed and even encouraged to learn about other cultures to broaden our knowledge of the world and make us less narrow minded.