Solved task two culture

1.    Some say culture exists through a common native language while others say culture is self-standing and it does not necessarily need a common language.

·         How right are these two views on culture in your opinion?

It is a little hard tell apart the relationship between culture and the language of a culture. Anyway, culture is transported through a language, but it is not to say that there must be a common language all the time.

To begin with culture as such, it is not that easy to confine this abstract idea into a smaller set of words. However, it is words most of the time that keep culture going and enlivened. For example, people’s contributions to their life are being recorded in a language and the same is carried down to the coming generation.

Let me clarify it with an example. In our culture, it is expected that elders are respected and women are revered and children are nurtured with utmost care. This idea is written in holy scripts, referred to too often, spoken by people, and children are taught so. But the thing is that there can be several languages to get this job done. Again in Indian culture, food, whatever it may be, is taken as divine and this is same throughout the country.

Let me come to the second idea that culture is self-standing. In a multi-lingual populace same cultural nuances will be transported in several different mediums. Here I must add that there are a certain cultural things that do not need a language at all. Music, dance, some performing arts and fine arts are far more expressed and appreciated than spoken or read out. They just exist.  

In short, language is very much involved in carrying a culture forward, but there are some cultural elements that do not need any language at all. They can be on their own. Or, they have their own language, I would say. The two views on culture are solid.   

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