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Being
aware of culture makes you strange
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| The
term "strange fish" is slang for someone who is aware of culture. |
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| It comes from the proverb,
"It is a strange fish that knows the existence of water." |
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| We live within our
culture, which we also carry about with us. |
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| To be a fish is to
be unaware of water. |
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| Perhaps the fish can
move through different kinds of water, such as going from a river to the
ocean, like a human living in another culture, but it is still water. |
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| A fish that jumps out
of water to rid itself of lice, experiences non water briefly. |
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| For us to be aware
of culture, which is what makes us human, we need to remove ourselves from
culture. |
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| Moving from our culture
that we usually live in, to an exotic or different culture, does not take
us out of culture, but is just a move between different kinds (like
the river and ocean, both water). |
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| Even that makes us
odd, especially if we adjust our values and behaviour. |
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| Remember we use the
sociological concept of culture, which is equivalent to the total socio-cultural
system (not just art and dance), composed of everything we learn, and what
gives us our humanity. |
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| A community, for example,
is a social or cultural entity, not the individuals which may compose it
at any one time. |
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