Why is it important to learn the history of your own culture?
I need to write a paragraph for homework on why it’s important to learn about the history of your own culture. I need at least three good reasons.
Also, if i want to earn an A, which i do, i need another paragraph on why it’s important to learn about other cultures history. I need at least three good reasons for that too. I just cant think tonight and need a little help please.
"The Grand" stated it eloquently. To add to that, I would say that it is a part of your heritage, something you will always have with you, that no one can take from you. You will always be a part of that family, no matter what your present circumstances are. You belong. That can’t change. You will never lose it, nor can it ever be taken from you.
If you don’t know about your culture, you don’t fully know who you are; you don’t know about your "family" , or how special you, coming from such a rich heritage, and that is sad.
When you learn other cultures,it gives you another perspective on life and other ways of thinking. It gives you greater understanding of the world, and considering other points of view. It enriches your life when you take that knowledge and adopt some of it to your life; foods, clothing, ceremonies, beliefs, celebrations. You have then added to the diversity and richness of your life. (For example you may be Italian, but love Mexican food, and the colorful clothing.)
For example, even thought I am not related to our forebearers of the Revolutionary War era. But I am well-read enough about their sacrifices and unparalleded contributions to appreciate them and to realize that they did this not just for themselves, but more for all of posterity. They didn’t even know us, but they wanted security and liberty for us. I love them for what they did. That’s my family. No one can ever take that from me. I am rich in that knowledge. Now that is not an ethic cultural, but it is an American culture, based on life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. (Because of that pride in my "family", I became one of them…as a Revolutionary War reenactor. It has greatly enriched my life.)
I also have an ethnic background of 3 nationalities, and that is interesting as well to compare different ways of life, thinking, and doing.
I have pride in each of their cultures; I belong to those ethnic families. I know who I am, and I have something no one can take from me: A culturally rich heritage.
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Some could say "if you don’t know where you’ve been, you won’t know where you’re going". History is like that. If you don’t know your own cultural history you won’t know the mistakes made in the past, the highpoints you can be proud of, etc. Particularly, without studying the past you won’t know why you’re having problems with somebody else in the now. Or you might not be aware of something in the past which someone else today painfully remembers & they hold against you & your culture.
That’s partially why you also need to study someone else’s culture. To know them. To say you don’t need to know is like living on a particular street & saying you don’t need to know about anywhere else b/c you’ll never leave that street. Eventually you come to learn there are other streets, other neighborhoods, etc. Best to know something about ‘em.
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"The Grand" stated it eloquently. To add to that, I would say that it is a part of your heritage, something you will always have with you, that no one can take from you. You will always be a part of that family, no matter what your present circumstances are. You belong. That can’t change. You will never lose it, nor can it ever be taken from you.
If you don’t know about your culture, you don’t fully know who you are; you don’t know about your "family" , or how special you, coming from such a rich heritage, and that is sad.
When you learn other cultures,it gives you another perspective on life and other ways of thinking. It gives you greater understanding of the world, and considering other points of view. It enriches your life when you take that knowledge and adopt some of it to your life; foods, clothing, ceremonies, beliefs, celebrations. You have then added to the diversity and richness of your life. (For example you may be Italian, but love Mexican food, and the colorful clothing.)
For example, even thought I am not related to our forebearers of the Revolutionary War era. But I am well-read enough about their sacrifices and unparalleded contributions to appreciate them and to realize that they did this not just for themselves, but more for all of posterity. They didn’t even know us, but they wanted security and liberty for us. I love them for what they did. That’s my family. No one can ever take that from me. I am rich in that knowledge. Now that is not an ethic cultural, but it is an American culture, based on life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. (Because of that pride in my "family", I became one of them…as a Revolutionary War reenactor. It has greatly enriched my life.)
I also have an ethnic background of 3 nationalities, and that is interesting as well to compare different ways of life, thinking, and doing.
I have pride in each of their cultures; I belong to those ethnic families. I know who I am, and I have something no one can take from me: A culturally rich heritage.
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