Friday, 23 October 2009

Culture Questionnaire


This experience was one of the most scaring and interesting thing I've done in the university. it was scaring because I'm not used to talk to strangers in the street and less to ask them questions about how much they know about something or what they like.
But it was also interesting. The answers I got gave a new perspective about Chilean citizens. I used to see people from my country as very shallow and misinformed about the world, but I found out that it was not exactly as I thought. I found that I had wrong images or prejudice on people but they proved me wrong. Not all of them are misinformed, not all of them watch TV all day long, not all of them do not read. But on the other hand I got some very clear examples of my prejudices. People who did not know much about the place they live in or that their answer what they think I wanted to hear instead of saying their real opinion.

I also think that this questionnaire represented quite well what people in general think culture is. it included questions about their likes or their knowledge which is a part of culture anyway, but I couldn't see like real opinions or honest answers because people was to worried about what the "correct information" was, what they learnt at school or what the books say it is necessary to know.
Thus, for me a pretty important impression it is that culture in some way it is not always representing people believes, costumes, ideals, thoughts, and so forth, but it is also a generalization of what some people thought it was correct to know or do. Not what they are, it is what they pretend to be.

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