Culture

In this blog, we were supposed to dicuss a culture different from our own. When I thought about this, one of the first things that popped into my head was; Exiled. The TV show on MTV. The show is about extremly spoiled rich kids who had a huge sweet 16 party, and depend on their parents and others for everything in life. They want everything, and expect to get everything they ask for. The show is supposidly the parents realizing that their children are spoiled brats, and that they want to change that. So they send their child away for a week to another continent to see how hard other people in other cultures have it. One episode that I found very interesting, was the one where Bjorne a self centered brat was sent off to the deserts of Egypt (or somewhere in the area, can't really remember exactly haha) But when he arrived, his attitude was the most horrific thing for miles. The change in culture and lifestyle was apparently too much for him, and he didn't feel like trying to adapt. So he spent his week with a horrible attitude and being disrepesctful to everybody and everything. The boy that was there to welcome him into his family, was disrepected all day long. His culture was unique, and different of one in the United States so to say, but that does not make it any less improtant. A culture is a culture. Wether you eat with your hands, a fork or a stick. Whether you live in a mansion, or under a tree. A culture is a culture, no matter how you look at it. Being put into a culture where you sleep on a piece of hard cement, and dress in a long sheet, hunting for all the food that you eat, and rarely getting to clean yourself, indeed would be an adjustment but is not impossible. This show really showed me to appreciate everything that I have, and to appreciate every other culture that is out there in this world.
I watched this show on television on MTV (channel 35) Tuesdays @ 4.