Q&A for How to Preserve Your Culture

The presence of meaningful cultural symbols or décor in your home can be a great way to feel connected to your cultural heritage.

Talk to elders in your community who used to participate in those practices. If there are books or visual art available, you can use those to study those practices and bring them back to life. Hold events celebrating those practices so you can teach the younger people in your community what you've learned.

Learn how to play a traditional instrument so you can play the music yourself! you can also work with members of your community to hold concerts that focus on traditional music. If you have experience recording and producing digital music, you could also create digital recordings and spread the music that way.

Preserving your culture is important. Your culture is a part of your identity. If you don't preserve your culture, in later generations, they'll completely forget about the beautiful culture of their ancestors. The culture your ancestors followed is precious and unique. Don't lose it.

First of all, pass it on to your future generations, the children. Use books, drawings, festivals and competitions. Experience and live your culture daily.

You should respect them and their cultures just as you would like them to respect you and yours. They're not taking anything away from you by existing. Preserve your own culture but do not force it on others.

You can try developing programming to tell people about both your heritage and culture. You could also conduct trips to places you find important to your heritage in order to educate others about its importance.

Moral values are like ethics. They are the rules or values that someone stands by to help them make decisions. An example would be that their moral values, include having good relationships with everyone, so they stay away from hurtful gossip.

Educate people about the traditions, and make sure this is part of the official education system. Fund traditional arts, persuade people of the value of these traditions, and get the elders involved (if you have them).

By introducing your culture to those who don't know about it. Talk about it, cook foods and play the music of your culture for others. Give friends gifts from your culture. Be an ambassador.

Practices which may hurt others, do not support equality, and support caste system are usually considered as the social evils that arise in every culture. We must learn the good values and impart them while discarding those which are inhuman and evil.

You should raise awareness by informing people. This can be done by handing out flyers and posters, promoting websites that specialize in cultural intelligence, or getting an article written in your local newspaper.

Talk about it and share it with other people. People are often fascinated by the different ways that people do similar things. Start a conversation and help bring others into the fold.

Of course, you can! You, of course, cannot be that culture, but appreciating and celebrating a culture is just as good. Find someone with a different culture, and invite them over on a day they would normally be celebrating or doing something. For example, an Indian person may appreciate if you celebrate some of their holidays along with them! They may want to appreciate yours as well. Also, don't forget, American is a culture, a diverse one at that.

Start with something small that creates joy for everyone: music, dance, food, the way you dress, fabrics, jewelry, etc.

The best way to preserve a culture is by continuing its practice. You might think about creating a cultural fair that encourages students to research aspects of your culture (food, dancing, legends etc.) and present their findings, usually by participating in the act itself. It can often be exciting for students to cook native dishes and learn old stories. Also, it's important to remember that culture isn't something that happens in the past, it's something we do every day!

I would advocate going out into your district and seeing what people are doing already. Culture is a living thing and chances are they are already preserving their culture by practicing it. But if you were looking to promote or preserve some specific aspect of your districts culture, then you can hold a cultural festival where that practice is at the center. The more people aware of a practice and the more that feel like they can be involved in it the more likely it is to survive.

Gather as much information on the game as you can, then recreate it so everyone for future generations will enjoy it.

Cultural sovereignty is having control over the story of your culture and way of life. This usually becomes an issue when another group of people tries to define (and misrepresent) your culture. So for example, Indigenous people in the U.S. have tried to reassert their cultural sovereignty against the European majority.

You might consider acquiring some original paintings and either curating and preserving them yourself or donating them to a museum that might be interested. Often the best way for us to preserve a way of art is to take it up ourselves; so you might consider learning the craft and contributing to the Nepalese art world.

Try finding other people with the same culture, by, for example, going to a church or affiliated community group. You can also ask family.

It gives us the opportunity to study other people and their cultures, and through that study, we can come to understand them and ourselves better. Also, if you've ever wanted to be an artist, looking at art from other places or groups is a good way to add to your own style and find new subjects for your work.

Don't associate with those who mock your culture, just walk away. Arguing with them is a waste of time and energy which is better spent enjoying life, family, friends, etc.

Yes. And inviting people of other cultures to these festivals will help preserve your culture while also educating others about it.

It depends on your definition of brutal. That's a subjective term. But if the culture you're talking about is not your own, then it's not really your decision. You are not the arbiter of what should and should not be preserved.

Surround yourself with people who share that identity and are also interested in preserving it. Learn the language and practices. Speak to older people and learn about the history and development of your culture.

In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of a society. Socialization encompasses both learning and teaching and is thus "the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained" (Source: Wikipedia.org).

Take a break from social media, friends who are deeply influenced by the changing times, take a break from the news. A lot of the time, people are influenced by whoever shouts the loudest in the media, even if it's wrong. This is a reason to take a break from the media, and strengthen your culture and identity by spending time with family.

You must know your values, first. When you have identified your values, then, (only then) can you work to preserve your values.

Any that don't involve worship of another God, or sin. Human sacrifice can't be maintained, but New Year's Eve parties can. A celebration where onions are symbolically offered to Bast and then eaten couldn't be maintained, but it could be changed to a secular onion festival.