Damian Cultures´ Blog: Is Colombia affected by a dominant culture?

Is Colombia affected by a dominant culture?

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To answer those kind of questions we must look very close the whole country.

Each region has its own culture, in the center of the country with the capital, in the north with the coastal culture, even each city will show different customs, dialects, beliefs, physical traits and more. In this big country that has more or less 2.070.000 km (taking into account the maritime extension) all the Colombians live and move through all of it, but we see that today you still can appreciate the regional cultures, and it hasn’t being affected too much for the time.

Now with a global vision and analysis, there is a dominant culture that affects every region and every culture. With the globalization process that we face everyday, we start to see many changes in the people´s acts like the way they dress, talk, music, believe, and so on.

This also would be considered as the theories of the convergence or divergence. With the first one in some time we will be only one culture and no more, the global village every people listen the same things, acting the same way that everyone does, and local cultures will slowly vanish. Personally I prefer to mix those theories; recognize the power of the globalization process but am pretty sure that some local cultures, all those roots believes will remain in the time. It could sound pretty idealist but also with a big part of realist by facing the actual situations.

To see an example of the big changes in culture we only need to look Japan, the new generations are changing so much, and old citizens really doesn’t like it they don’t feel good with the changes, but in the Okinawa Islands there always be the Karate-do, in all the country we still can appreciate the structure of their buildings, the sumo fights (and lifestyle) and more stuff of the Japanese culture.