22 may, 2018
My cultural paradigm changed !
I grew up surrounded by a very different paradigm, the culture that my parents taught me was about respect and family relationship with nature. I remember when I was a little boy and watched television, there were many things that I thought did not exist because I had seen them in my life only on television such as a washing machine, microwaves, elevators, etc.
As I got older I could see that my cultural paradigm changed. We moved because my dad got a job in the city, we could see many different things, I remember there were many things we did for the first time such as going to the pool, using electric ladder, hot shower, each had his own room. We looked as if we were discovering fire.
I think that as one grows he begins to know other paradigms, and even to adapt. Currently I do not know the United States, I mean I've never been there, I only know it for having read or seen on television, but I am sure that if I go there, I will start to have a different perspective than what I know until now, and I think it's the same with the people there, because they do not know how to live here in Peru, but if they visited, they would have a notion of a different paradigm.
During my mission, I was able to meet many Americans from Utah, California, Nevada, Idaho. We always talked about our cultural differences, and I liked to know more and in that way I could learn English not only the grammar but the way people communicate in different parts of the United States.
Knowing a new language implies knowing your culture, in this way learning is more exciting and profound.
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ResponderBorrarI think that each culture has paradigms and this paradigms are created based our traditions and history, is good for everyone to know other cultures and know their paradigms, but never we should disparage our own culture.
the knowledge about culture will make people respectful about traditions and paradigms.
Hi. I liked when you said knowing a new language implies knowing your culture. Also I would say that this help to know new cultures. Each language has a country and a country a culture.
ResponderBorrarHi! You are right! Every country has its own culture and are based on cultural paridgms, inherited from past genarations, that is why it is so important to preserve it and pas it to others. Our own culture is like our sign to be recognized by others unto the world and it makes us different from each other the same way we have been created by God.
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