Schooling

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

We work with the culture what we have experienced or we have been shaped by our culture. Various cultures like working, social, familial, and professional determine what how we behave; or it reflects our behaviors or characters. It comes all of a sudden either knowingly or unknowingly. Ultimately we are used to such behaviors that influence our overall lifestyle. I met one of the persons in the morning who has some political touch with the New Shakti Nepal, the youngest political party of Nepal. When we wish each other in the morning, he said that “you wake up early like in election time”.

The word ‘election’ made me inquisitive very much as he pronounced at that time; neither was it election time nor was there any news of election. It had greater meaning as it helped me to understand the brought up culture of any person in reality. Why did he use such word not other? We didn’t hear any news regarding the election but the word what he had used was much mysterious. It made me realize that he represented different stream as per his conscience.

His orientation is much different than mine or he is oriented by political thoughts and ideas rather than me. The concept is set according to the need, culture, or system of their profession. Different professions have different time schedule which they have to follow for existing. Thus he has taken the reference of election instead of others. If one is official, s/he should follow the time of 10.00am; those who conduct grocery shop, s/he should wake up earlier than others or very early in the morning. Every professions or businesses have their own time which can’t match with others. Moreover you have nothing to do at day time if you are grocer rather you should be busy at morning and evening time. If you have fashion shop your shop mainly opens at day and evening time so you have to be prepared at that time only. It indicates that our orientation would be different according our business.

Our understanding is different according to our business as it has different system, time, customers, and ways of dealing. The system would have been set according to its nature and culture in which many things influence it. We have found difference in many aspects so that one stream doesn’t match with the next one. The difference in thinking and action can occur as per the ethics or system of the profession. The person whom I have introduced at first has different orientation than me so he has used such symbol. Or he used to wake up early in the morning at the time of election. Perhaps he has no understanding of my culture as my schedule is different than him. Thus our thinking and schedule don’t match as we represent different businesses. The difference not only lies in our profession rather we have taken the same day from different perspectives. Hence, it varies according to the need of the person and his/her business. As in drama it has been affected by spatiotemporal setting.

Human beings have come from different socio-cultural background so their brought up has set some criteria to function accordingly. It is conceived that humans have the habit of reproducing cultural practices of them where they were born or what they had experienced. On the other hand, culture has shaped them in its system and they are true representative of the culture. Accordingly they have managed their time available to them so that his/her behavior and character would have been shaped. Our socio-cultural background has set some system in our mind and we have been guided with that. We also think ourselves as the representative of it so we have pronounced it all of a sudden. In other words, it’s a sense of pride to all of us which makes us unique than others or it’s our identity. We are typical by our culture which is one of the pursuits of human beings in this era.

Humans have been limited by their social and cultural background so foreign culture is somehow odd to them. The culture has ensured them all the things and they are habituated to live accordingly. Or we feel complete with our culture or system of living fulfilling all the needs. We have been shaped accordingly since we are it followers and others’ culture and social practices are somehow odd to us. However, we should realize that we are one of the parts of different societies in the world. The cosmopolitan culture has included various aspects; neither can we guess it, nor can practice all. We have been decked with limited knowledge though we feel sufficient with us; it can be a good example of pride rather than the consideration. The set belief system can represent one of the parts of knowledge. We have been an agent of reflection of our culture like the mirror. If we don’t realize the sensitivity of others’ culture it may be resulted into conflict as well.