Should We Embrace Other's Culture?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2291324/Child-bridegroom-Eight-year-old-boy-marries-61-year-old-woman-dead-ancestors-told-tie-knot.html

[emmie]

someone else posted this earlier, see if can find link...

[emmie]

smow

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1224142.html

[emmie]

same story as smow's link, not any day soon i would expect..

[anotheoldgit]

em10

Thanks I missed that one, I've been so busy.

[tamborine]

Will primary school kids marry their off shore gramps & bring them here to wallow in the snow

[sp1814]

AOG

We already do.

We drink coffee at Starbucks.

We celebrate Halloween by going trick or treating (for the life of me, I don't remember doing that as a child)

We wear blue jeans and t-shirts.

We go to salsa classes

We listen to rap music.

We drink in 'Irish' pub chains.

We eat curries after a night out.

We know how to use chopsticks.

We watch Borgen / Spiral / The Killing / Wallander

We watch American films.

We eat MacDonalds

[emmie]

sp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating
as to starbucks, mcdonalds, not particularly cultural, more fattening

[emmie]

because you eat in turkish, chinese, indian restaurants doesn't mean you have embraced the culture, it means you like the food..

[Baldric]

sp, the only one on your list I do is to eat Curries, that is because I like Curries not embracing another culture

[emmie]

i like this, seems the Americans didn't get there first. by the way i like wearing jeans, comfortable and easy to clean.

Denim has been used in America since the late 18th century.[2] The word comes from the name of a sturdy fabric called serge, originally made in Nîmes, France, by the André family. Originally called Serge de Nîmes, the name was soon shortened to denim.[3]

[emmie]

many more recent American films are puerile, occasionally they hit the jackpot but not often,
their beer is vile,
oh and i hate curry...

[hc4361]

Big hooohaaaa about nothing. They went through a ceremony that is not legally binding in that country or any other, they have no intention to live as man and wife - ever.

[emmie]

i think he, we know that, as per the link to smows question.

[ichkeria]

But eating curry is embracing a part of that culture - like it or not

[emmie]

embracing that culture would be being part of it, having asian friends, perhaps marrying into it, related to and enjoying the company of, just because i like French food doesn't mean to say i have any French friends or have embraced their culture. I would sit down to some nice French food in much the same way as Italian, because for the most part it's delicious.

[joko]

sp - but they are just harmless recreational activities - fun - ones which people do on holiday anyway

they are not life changing events nor against any western culture

hardly the same thing as a child marrying a old lady to appease spirits.
it is also bigamy as she is married

[lady-janine]

no i don't agree that we should embrace another culture - greater understanding would be enough for me.

[Gromit]

Those Christians can be odd.

But we should tolerate them.

[sp1814]

Oh but my examples are indeed an embracement of cultural differences that have nothing to do with traditional British culture.

Fast food could not be more American.

Cafe culture is very French.

Halloween? Imported from America, as to is 'open plan' living.

The reason behind Britain wholesale import of foreign culture is because since the 60s, international travel has been democratised. How many people in the 1950s went abroad for their holidays?

How many British people in the 1950s knew how to rustle up a paella at home? Or lasagne? Or a spaghetti bolognese? Or a Thai green curry?

Maybe I misunderstand what 'culture' is?

To me, culture is what we do, how we live rather than how we picture ourselves.

Just my opinion.