Some individuals have more freedom to define the elements of their cultural repertories based on their relative social positioning. It’s important to note that our cultural repertoires are heavily influenced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, legal status and other social determinants. Has this cultural repertoire changed over time? Does it look the same as your siblings?
As a simple exercise, notice ways that you, as well as your family, define elements of your cultural repertoire including culinary, linguistic, sartorial and religious elements. Their food habits, however, have not changed that dramatically over time. Many decades later, their religious rituals look very different. Growing up, we used to do aarti every night. Sometimes they wear kurtas and saris other times they do not. Over many decades, their cultural practices have changed. When we remember that the practice of essentializing cultures was a strategy used by those with power to enable subjugation, we might start to invite new possibilities for thinking about culture.Ī cultural repertoire is the individual set of practices and beliefs we define for ourselves. As Asian Americans today, we often recur to these Oriental tropes of defining our ancestral cultures as “traditional” and incompatible with modernity. The first Europeans and Americans to encounter Asia – from Marco Polo to the Carnes Brothers, two New Yorkers who brought the teenage Afong Moy from her native Guangdong Province to New York City as a circus specimen – deemed Asian peoples, languages, food and other elements of culture as inferior and worthy of conquest. Culture is dynamic and fluid.Ĭulture does not exist in a binary. The cultural practices that we adhere to during one stage of life will change and evolve. Even though my friend and I both think of ourselves as LGBTQ+ South Asians, we think of our identities in two completely different ways. Vietnamese Americans who grow up in the same suburb of Houston do not define their Viet American identity in the same way. Two Muslims who attend the same Jum’ah prayers each Friday don’t practice Islam in exactly the same way. In reality, people throughout time have had individual agency to assemble their idiosyncratic set of cultural values from numerous influences. Thinking of culture in this way – unchanging and oppositional – not only limits our self-concept, but has also been historically deployed by different groups to justify slavery, colonialism and imperialism.Ĭulture is not static. East versus West, traditional versus progressive. In his personal statement, he wrote, “I learned to balance my Eastern and Western cultures.” My friend, a queer Indian American, was imagining his South Asian ancestry as frozen in time, centered on family values and collectivism, while conversely considering U.S. On 21 January 2019 Culture Kultür released their fifth studio album Humanity.Editor’s note: This column was submitted by a member of the UT community.Ī friend recently asked me to review his application to graduate school. The band released the album Reborn in June 2005 it reached position 3 at the DAC charts. Their EP "DNA Slaves" reached the 10th position in DAC charts (German alternative charts), and their second album, Revenge, contains hits that have been spun all over the world, becoming a club classic. The band was born in 1992 in Málaga, Southern Spain, evolving from a 80s alike EBM with distorted voices to a more electro sound with energetic beats, melodic synths and meaningful lyrics boosted by powerful vocals.Īfter their signing with Out of Line in 1999 they have supported the Mexican band Hocico in the Tierra Electrica '99 Tour, played in mayor festivals as WGT, M'era Luna, Infest & Eurorock, performing gigs in USA, Mexico and Canada, and included dozens of songs in different compilations. Josua, Salva Maine, Distortiongirl (live)Ĭulture Kultür is a Spanish electronic music project, working primarily in the EBM and synthpop genres.Ĭulture Kultür are frontman Salva Maine, Josua at the programming and Distortiongirl as live keyboardist.
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