Thursday, February 24, 2011

Differences of Cultures

Culture is art of living. Languages and cultures are most important thing in our life. With out culture or language we can not communicate or talk to different people. When we think about culture but what is culture? Culture is thing that connects different people and try to understand their beliefs and their own languages. Different cultures have different languages and that allows us to communicate with people. When we think about culture or language that shows us that how we are doing in our own society, our thinking, beliefs, about our culture. I am Hindu and in my culture we have lot of languages. In India, their many different cultures and they have their own languages but it very difficult to understand them. I can speak four languages: Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri. When we are talking about different toilets in different countries but when you see the Indian toilet it is very different from America. It is kind of like Japan. But we don't use toilet paper instead of paper we use water. That is perfectly fine. When I was coming to USA, I use to used water in toilet it was very hard to use toilet paper for me. It feels very awkward. Also, from Indian culture to American culture is very different in different ways. Most important thing is language. It is very hard for me to speak English when I came here and hard to communicate with different people. Also, in American culture we always say sorry, thank you, please, etc. I did not used to say those words in India. These is more polite and respect to others.

Today what we learn in class, I would say it was very difficult when you talk about different non material cultures and connect to different people. Non-material culture is symbolic culture, or gestures and language.Gestures are so different in different countries. Like in American OK sign means different in India. That is kind of inappropriate mean. Sometimes it crates a big problems between people like when we go to restaurant we call waiter a different ways like in India we call him or shout him or make kind a noise. So, basically understanding of different culture is connected with their own languages. Finally, I would say it is not easy to follow some different culture or connect with different people.
Thank You.