My view on cultural expressions

Humans have over the years developed millions of cultural identities for themselves, and along with those identities comes ways of expressing them so that the world around can find out who they are. Every human being is raised with a culture of their own that reaches down to them from the days of their ancestors. This can be everything from music and writing to food and architecture, and people have different ways of letting the world know of their culture. A person from India who plays the sitar to the public is making the surroundings aware of what his culture sounds like. A painter on an open street in Italy makes the people around him aware of what his culture looks like. All across the world, people who create things and let the masses know of it are expressing their cultural identities to the world.

On the other hand, a cultural expression does certainly not have to be as stereotypical as an Indian playing the sitar. A cultural identity is passed on through generations and shaped by every single individual itself, so that it adapts to fit every person individually. After the person has obtained and shaped their cultural identity, they will have to work and search for ways of expressing it to the world. These days, millions of kids and teenagers all over the world are creating and exploring ways of expressing, creating and shaping their cultural identity so that the world can know that they exist. It can be everything from a child that sits in his room drawing sketches on the floor, a teenage girl who trains to become a professional violinist, or a boy that sits in his kitchen all day trying to prepare something decent. There are no limits when it comes to what you can be and what you can do with your cultural identity.

However, there are very many reasons to work on your cultural identity. Some people want to show the world that they are something, that they are not just mannequins that glide past the environments without having any effect on the world around them. Some people want to get their opinion out in the public, so that it can be heard, rated and commented by the rest of the people on earth, so that it one day can have an impact on another person’s life.

And then, of course, there are people who do it for fame. The human race is a bad race, I think. Some of us blindly follow our instinct that tells us to go out there and become better than everyone in every possible way. The human race clutches money as if it was the most important thing in the world, and for many people money is the most important thing you could ever come across. People have such a strong desire for being noticed by the general public, that they go very far to reach that goal. You can tell from simply looking at some of today’s celebrities. Take Nicki Minaj judging the X-Factor or whatever the hell it is that she does. You see some pounds of make-up and some weird designer clothes somehow making their way across the body that’s filled up with plastics. This woman is a true example of people who have thrown away their personality, allowing themselves to be nothing more than a media doll. People might exploit themselves and their culture for fame’s sake, and they leave their cultural identity to rot in a bottomless pit that reflects their massive selfishness.

It is said that your cultural identity is your true identity, and if this is the case, those people who throw their culture away for the sake of fame and glory don’t have an identity. That is a huge loss for a person, because knowing who you are is the most important thing in the whole world. You can’t embark on any new adventures without being sure of whom you really are, because if you are insecure of yourself, you’re insecure of everything. This is the loss that the people who crave fame so bad must go through with, and that can mark a person for life.

But to be honest, it’s obvious that a lot of the world loves those people who would willingly sell their soul to Lucifer himself for fifteen minutes of fame. You can go on YouTube and search for ‘stunt’, and it will pop up billions of videos that display people who go through with ridiculous tries on doing something that’s cool and extremely dangerous, so that the general public can see how much of a badboy they are. These people obviously struggle with facing the facts, because there must be a lot of people trying to make them aware that doing such idiotic things is killing millions of people all over the world. This does not seem to stop them at all, because when they see the comments about how sick they are and how extremely cool it looked when they drove that motorbike off the rooftop; they get a rush of fame in their blood. The sight of people from all over the world commenting on how cool you are will force any fame-crazed nuthead to put himself in a lot more danger just to feel the rush of a couple of minutes filled with fame.

But as previously mentioned, the masses on the internet love it. You can see posts all over Facebook that does nothing but spreading the word about Justin Biebers monkey, or how awfully cool this particular person who jumped off a cliff and proceeded to fight a Eurasian Eagle-Owl, wielding nothing but a sock and a yoyo. The forums are packed with people discussing how insanely cool it is to do stupid things solely for fame and glory that won’t last for more than a couple of months, top. Making videos of yourself fighting monkeys with ballerina skirts in a cage, and so on, is getting more popular by the minute, and it’s always uploaded to the internet so that the poor people who are addicted to hearing and complaining on others opinions has got something to do all day.