Your Opinion on : Can culture change anything? by Paulo Coelho

I want to hear your opinion on culture.

Do you think that culture can change anything in this world?
I will be participating this week in a cultural forum in Avignon / France and will meet people there that put a lot of hope in what they believe in the same way I do but sometimes we feel that despite our best efforts the world doesn't change.

Yesterday I saw a movie about WWI ("All Quiet in the Western Front") and had the realization that a lot of things haven't changed. Nonetheless we cannot lose hope so this is why I'm turning to you: How do you think we could use culture in a more effective and powerful way?

I believe internet helps given that it is a platform for people that are open to share ideas. So please, leave here your opinion so that I may share it with the people of this forum.

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[asiabbmodel]

Perhaps we should start with the question

is the culture creating the society or the society create the culture.

I believe the beginning has to come from spiritual awareness of each person to develop

positive approach in life... be strong and not to be affected by wrong ideas and concepts... very often promote by media... and setting wrong trends, interest and talking us of our own core.

Perhaps if the media change.... the culture and the society will change for better

[trescoolxox]

We do not need to cultivate cultures to change the world. We must let it take it's toll, and let the people evolve culture, and culture evolve people naturally.

[ivanchanez]

paulo cohelo is the real culture! :D

[danceswithcrayons]

I love all kinds of cultures. After a lot of travel, I adopt traditions that make my life better. For instance in Romania, my cuscra have a toast every night to something or someone. It was fun to focus throughout each day on the blessings, then later acknowlege with family gathering at the evening meal, making a bright toast each night. Thankyou, Blessings Paulo xo

[rPdmsgP]

some said there is no such thing as better culture and worst culture,we have our goods and bad we make them and the culture influence us one person really counts and if some want to change it just need little bit of courage to do so

[Allyredstar]

Lose the superior feeling that many people have and get in touch with the poor inhabitants of nations who really can share their culture of their country. People on the internet and their culture look alike or try to find people who have simularities with them.

[poetnine]

I think that the most important aspect of culture is what I call prevailing attitude.

Unfortunatly the attitude of elitism or systems of seperation are the seeds of horror that lead to conflict instead of cooperation.

The positive shift I see coming is the trends of connection emerging as prevailing attitude. We are approaching DELIGHT in one another as diversity and this can save the world. We humanity

are the world.

Become love...connect, with respect, delight in the other.

[styxway]

i agree with you.

i think pc does not understand what the word culture means or he means something completely different then culture. or he might ask, *how* we could change the culture, or change or work with our believes, or work (via internet) together, etc.

but asking: "can culture change anything in this world?" is really stupid question.

but then i think, he is only looking for some new ideas for a speech or his forum talks. a bit cheap.

[styxway]

@paulo: why don't you ask the aliens you experienced to meet in the mojave desert lately? they might come up with wonderful new ideas and concepts how we could change our way of life/culture so everybody would be happy and we could create a paradies on our earth. no more war, no more pain, no more sorrow, no hunger or ecological disorder, only peace, happyness, and endless love. please let me know what you can find out.

[UnoSemper]

Firstly we need to understand different cultures to appreciate our own.

[alpkancakici]

Culture, Religion these are all ways that push people apart, and bring people together. The differences in different cultures such as the food they might eat, or the god they believe in can all have an affect of hatred or of love. The unifying thought about culture is that all around the world, people created and made things that they believed in. We are nothing without hope and everything with it. Culture has a great impact on a individuals personality in the meaning that culture is what we are