When one of our work teams was here we took them to visit Otavalo, an Indian market place. We also visited Cotachachi or "leather town" as we call it. While we were there a parade of the towns people passed by. We tried to find out what they were celebrating, and finally Israel said, "I think because it is a small town, they just have lots of festivals to keep everyone happy and busy." The thought occurred to me how similar our cultures are, because in the town we raised our own kids in, I think they had a festival for every season of the year. And yet, there is the same tension of the colliding cultures, for example the young boy about three rows back in his t-shirt from a North American store. We have our festivals to preserve our cultural traditions and without even realizing it, we have absorbed an entirely different culture into our midst.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Culture to Culture
When one of our work teams was here we took them to visit Otavalo, an Indian market place. We also visited Cotachachi or "leather town" as we call it. While we were there a parade of the towns people passed by. We tried to find out what they were celebrating, and finally Israel said, "I think because it is a small town, they just have lots of festivals to keep everyone happy and busy." The thought occurred to me how similar our cultures are, because in the town we raised our own kids in, I think they had a festival for every season of the year. And yet, there is the same tension of the colliding cultures, for example the young boy about three rows back in his t-shirt from a North American store. We have our festivals to preserve our cultural traditions and without even realizing it, we have absorbed an entirely different culture into our midst.
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