From the last workshop I have noted down how the conversation around culture went...
Culture is the interpretation of everything that surrounds you
Attitude, beliefs, goals, knowledge, behaviour, values
A pattern of knowledge and behaviour
A common way a group of people communicate and share (e.g. food, language etc)
Multidimensional - can encompass beliefs, tradition, fashion, food, music, language, body language...
Usually built over time but can also change
Where you come from and how the people are/act in your country
Something a group of people follow - the same type of principles
What each country follows
Traditions
We then discussed whether people felt that they were part of a specific culture, did they identify with a specific one etc?
About half the group didn't feel that they could identify with a specific culture, the remainder identified with the culture of their parents as well as that of the communities they live in now in the London.
This led the discussion to ethnicity, and whether those tick boxes of white, white other, black African, black Caribbean etc were really that easy to tick! Out of those who understood what ethnicity meant, most found it very easy to chose, others felt there ethnicity had no impact at all on their identity.
Discussing nationality was a lot easier, people didn't have an emotional connection with this, it is literally what their passport or passports say on the cover.
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