For my monthly blog I am choosing to write about a holiday that relates to the cultural piece under discussion with the idea of different moral codes. I feel that as I am typing this I am reflecting on what brings different cultures together and what sets them apart. Obviously, after just finishing up the skeptical holiday of Thanksgiving. Everyone has different traditions and things they do every year that if they were changed would throw the culture of that said family into a depression spiral into despair. As someone who comes from a smaller family I feel that I do not get into the Thanksgiving holiday because it is not that big of a deal with my family as opposed to someone with a larger family that enjoys each other's company. I find myself enjoying the solidarity and laziness of my family's traditions when I hear of a huge ordeal of big family holiday traditions. I would not wish myself to have something that my family is not because we are who we are.
Ultimately, this relates to the cultural morality passage in the first page in which the dead fathers are brought up and how they should be dealt with based on the two different cultures. For me this is the big family holiday idea versus the little family holiday with the main topic being thanksgiving. When one family does one thing individuals from the other feel that they could never be a part of it just because they have been in one culture their whole life and being a part of an other culture would be preposterous. What this boils down to is the human tendency to avoid and denounce change. Why is this might you ask? Well, change is scary because it is unknown and the main point here is that fear of the unknown hold cultures together on their own. This is why their is divide in the world and until we decide to make a conscience effort to not be afraid we will be in the dark. It's just like being at the Thanksgiving dinner and refusing to try your great aunt's stuffing because "it looks funny". Who knows that unknown taste might just be the best stuffing ever made! I feel like this blog was all over the place but I really enjoyed writing this because of the holiday and the great food I am currently wishing their was leftovers of.
