Culture. Throughout the world, many people live extreme opposites to how we do. In Canada, we may drive to work in rush hour traffic, work for 8 hours, drive back, and then go to a hockey game to let loose. To enjoy our sport. But in other countries, you may go and play a sport where you attempt to be the only kite left in the sky. Called Kite Running. But why is it important to know this? To understand and acknowledge other people's cultures?
The simple answer is Tolerance. Tolerance and Understanding can lead to a great deal of positive things. Throughout history, many cultures have been put down for simply being their own people. But, that may simply be because people were uneducated. With education we are able to understand all the cultures of the world, and see that we are all equal in one way or another. This leads to respect, love, and bonding. If we can pull the world together through understanding, then we can do anything.
Before we read "The Kite Runner", many of us were unsure of who the Taliban were, and why they are the way they are. Now we are able to understand that they are people who have taken a beautiful culture to it's extremes and caused extraordinary amounts of pain. With this knowledge we have, we understand the conflicts of the world, and how it is not all of Afghanistan who are bad people, but simply those who took their culture and twisted it to their own means.
Understanding may have stopped Hitler. The Taliban. Stalin. If the world knew just what these people were doing to these cultures, people may have stepped in.
That's why it is important for us to learn about culture in the classroom. We can learn from it. We can respect and understand we are all equal. We can make sure the past does not repeat itself.
The simple answer is Tolerance. Tolerance and Understanding can lead to a great deal of positive things. Throughout history, many cultures have been put down for simply being their own people. But, that may simply be because people were uneducated. With education we are able to understand all the cultures of the world, and see that we are all equal in one way or another. This leads to respect, love, and bonding. If we can pull the world together through understanding, then we can do anything.
Before we read "The Kite Runner", many of us were unsure of who the Taliban were, and why they are the way they are. Now we are able to understand that they are people who have taken a beautiful culture to it's extremes and caused extraordinary amounts of pain. With this knowledge we have, we understand the conflicts of the world, and how it is not all of Afghanistan who are bad people, but simply those who took their culture and twisted it to their own means.
Understanding may have stopped Hitler. The Taliban. Stalin. If the world knew just what these people were doing to these cultures, people may have stepped in.
That's why it is important for us to learn about culture in the classroom. We can learn from it. We can respect and understand we are all equal. We can make sure the past does not repeat itself.
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