Should We Embrace Other's Culture?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2291324/Child-bridegroom-Eight-year-old-boy-marries-61-year-old-woman-dead-ancestors-told-tie-knot.html

[askyourgran]

So we have adopted and adapted food to our liking from around the world, how many countries have adopted our food? I like Chinese food but I have no wish to wear their clothes or even visit china. The way my nephew makes a curry wouldn't be classed as a cultural thing except in a petri dish.

[sp1814]

AYG

It's not just food.

It's so much more.

[stewey]

People who work in bacteriology labs should forgo embracing any type of culture.

[joko]

yes SP, it is - but none of your examples are harmful.
i doubt many would even care, let alone fight the adoption of a burrito or a dance etc, they are nice things, positive things...

but the things people are against are the harmful ones ... the ones we consider against our ways - and children marrying pensioners - because of some superstition, goes against our society... we consider it wrong.

[sp1814]

Joko

Isn't the question ridiculous then?

What is the point of linking to this story about something that happened in another country and asking, "Should embrace this"?

What has this got to do with the UK?

Do we recognise such marriages?

Has anyone ever lobbied parliament to legalise such marriages?

Has anyone run a story about the same thing happening in the UK?

If not, then the story has about as much significance as posting a link to La Tomatina and asking, "Should we allow such a waste of food along the streets of High Wycombe.

It's an odd question, as is the question which started this thread.

[Answerprancer]

Joko - Sp has answered the question of the OP directly, thus underlining the deliberately misleading and manipulative nature of the original question IMO.

[Answerprancer]

The article is rammed full of The Daily Scum's typical hyperbole and use of simplistic inflammatory keywords to satisfy its anger hungry bitter readership.

[craft1948]

I'm angry, hungry, and bitter.................good grief!

[joko]

oh i agree its kind of a daft question - since no-one is trying to get child/pensioner weddings brought here ...
but theres no denying some are trying to bring other weird things over to this country

so i took to be kind of a broad question, and aog had just used this story as a segway to pose the question - about how far we go in adopting the harmful ways of others... and didnt see how food was relevant.

[Answerprancer]

Fair enuff ;-)

[emmie]

sp, long before America came into being..

The word Halloween was first used in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All Hallows' Eve ('evening'), that is, the night before All Hallows' Day. Although the phrase All Hallows' is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All Hallows' Eve is itself not seen until 1556.

would you not say say Indian culture is rather different from British culture, if not then we have a different perception of culture.

[sp1814]

Joko

But the question was about this story, and it was a strange example to highlight.

[sp1814]

em10

No-one, but no-one did the American tradition of trick or treating in the UK when I was growing up.

At that time of year, Bonfire Night was the big celebration.

Halloween was not celebrated in the way it is now.

[sp1814]

To answer the original question.

Should we embrace others' (correct position of the apostrophe) culture?

Yes and no. It depends. If people want to, then it's a free country - let them. If others don't want to, then that's up to them.

[pdq1]

Only if it allows minor resident immigrants to marry a grandmother so letting her in and escaping our immigration laws.

[emmie]

sp the question seems plain enough should we embrace others culture, you either do or don't. But it's not just a question of whether you like the countries food, i like most foods, curry aside, but it still doesn't mean i wholly embrace all the cultures on offer. I enjoyed extensive travel and being part of the lifestyle of places i visited, but i didn't think for one minute i was anything but passing through..

no one did trick or treating because when you and i were growing up it didn't exist here. it's here now because of American influence... by and large...
We also celebrated Halloween, ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night, and Bonfire night is nothing to do with Halloween, it's do with the gunpowder plot, and the unhappy end of Guy Fawkes, who always ended up on someone's bonfire..

[society]

"Should We Embrace Other's Culture?"

Respect others' cultures is more like it for me. Don't know 'bout embracing...

[Answerprancer]

Sorry, but did my "Daily Scum" response violate any of the Site Rules? I'm sure it didn't.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// We already do. ///

Are you speaking for all of us sp?

For one I definitely wouldn't listen to Rap 'music' in fact it cannot possibly be classed as music.

Out of all those eleven examples, I have only been known to take part in two, those being the last two.