Textbook:
"This is culture as the patters and by products of everyday life: the languages we use, the ritual we perform, and the unspoken rules we abide by. It's what is created and recreated through work, play, conversations, and everyday inter- actions in our homes, schools, jobs, and places of worship. Culture surrounds us: it's the material from which we create our lives..."
Culture is very important and is what dictates how societies function and social norms. With that being said, culture must not be stagnant or Solid; it's something that does and should be able to change, especially as we progress and time move forward. As we continue to learn and educate ourselves and technology advances, we must advance with it and not be afraid to look at our societies and question if the culture that we have must be updated with what we know now.
"It's not just that we reject unorthodox things because we don't understand, relate to, or agree with them, but also because, beyond this, we're not culturally equipped to recognize, hear or see them: dissident speech sounds like noise, marginalized people escape our field of vision,.. "
This is the dark side of culture and related to what I explained above. Culture carries tradition, and these traditions were likely created from a different time period or with different beliefs and moral standards than we have today. Some things that are cultural, will inherently have biases that could cause harm to others ability to exist and thrive in societies that adhere to those cultural ideals. This is when culture must be examined, questioned, and changed.
Article:
"I have witnessed young people be easily derailed when they don’t see themselves in the representation of who is creating. Especially as I grew into my path as an educator, I found it equally important to share the work of my colleagues and those artists of color that inspired me with both young folks that I identified with (meaning those that looked like me) and white kids. For a white student, particularly a young white student, seeing the mode of expression of an artist of color can shift as much of their worldview as it does for a student of color."
It's true that even for myself, when I learn about successful white people, pridomenantly white old men, it does sometimes make me wonder if I as a young feminine person of color, can achieve something similar in a culture that traditionally priorities that group. For him to say that it's just as important to show young white students the art of people of color, as it is for young students of color, is true. I imagine that white people who are not exposed to people of color who are successful and achieve great things, they subconsciously associate success and greatness with themselves and people who look like them, and therefore, subconsciously associate people darker than them with failure or lack of effort. This likely fuels racism, and in a culture that prioritizes their success over their peers of color, this racism only makes things harder for all people of color.
"This is infiltrated and influenced by social media and the sort of commotion and chaos of the news cycle: we feel compelled to act, act, act—to respond, respond, respond—and artists don’t operate best in that rhythm. Artists need to take in, to process, to decipher, to separate from the noise and create things that are beautiful and impactful to the spirit. Artists have to offer a different type of slowness to work against the speed of today."
I agree with this in a way. I do think artists also feel the need to respond and act, which is where artivism comes in. With that being said, art is something that takes time and concentration. The message or commentary the artist is trying to make needs to be carefully considered and treated with patience.
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