Post on 15-Jul-2015
Enduring Cultures
Victor Bradley
7th Grade: Interdisciplinary Studies
Cascade Middle School
Sedro-Woolley, WA
What is Culture?
The Individual: Culture with a little C
• What we value, hold dear, celebrate, and find sacred
• Our families, our traditions, our customs, our past
• Our town, our jobs, our schools, our environment.
Culture With A Big C
• Regional Culture: Pacific Northwest
• National Culture: Living in the USA!
• Hemispheric Culture: North vs. South
• Mother Earth: The Global Village Interdependence, Connectedness and the World Economy
Connections:How Big C and Little C Fit
Together
• National culture defines the individual in many ways: citizen, voter, freedom lover, American!
• The individual is a unique expression of his or her background and traditions—collectively these individuals make up our larger culture, the big C, the USA in our case.
• Tolerance of differences and our diversity makes us greater collectively, our Big C stronger!
Enduring Cultures
No culture is greater than another. However there are cultures whose legacies and gifts to humankind have endured. Enduring cultures have withstood the test of time, their legacies are timeless.
What Makes an Enduring Culture Withstand the Test of Time?
• Great Achievements Acknowledged Through the Centuries
• Legacies, Architecture, and Arts that are still studied and honored today, generations even millenniums later.
• Enduring Stories and Literature that are still read and enjoyed today
There are enduring cultures in every age and every hemisphere!
• The enduring culture of North America
• Native American: first people, land of the 500 nations
• Legacies: native art, stewardship, diversity
Enduring Cultures: Europe
• Many of our culture’s custom, values, traditions, and ways of life originated in Europe
• Our systems of knowledge, science, & philosophy primarily originated in Europe
Ancient Greece
Pericles
Enduring Cultures: Africa
• Ancient Egypt: one of the earth’s original cultures that evolved along the Nile
• Incredible architecture: the Pyramids—eighth wonder of the world.
Djoser’s Step Pyramid
Enduring Cultures: Asia
• China: one of the earth’s oldest and longest lasting cultures
• Culture that actually invents many of the breakthroughs we claim to originate, such as printing press.