Cultural Appreciation

Our amazing Soul Focused Radio hosts come together in our new podcast to discuss cultural appreciation. Our hosts define cultural appreciation as a practice to connect with other cultures from a place of interest, reflection, and relationship. It is important to see how cultural appreciation is being self aware and trying not to be someone else. In Kenya Martina saw groups of children playing in the streets, and she shares how free spirited the children seemed there. She realized her toddler was the only child she witnessed having temper tantrums while visiting. She believes that the independent culture has helped children learn to express and grow their creative genius. Martina shares how she found food as an opportunity to exchange cultural knowledge. She was able to share her own culture with her in-laws by sharing the food she grew up eating. Cultural appreciation can be in a form of an exchange, but we also want to honor the differences in each way of life. We don’t want to continue looking down on cultures that are different from ours because we think our way of living is better.

In the second segment of this podcast our hosts talk about how we can practice cultural appreciation in America. Before we set out to appreciate and learn from others it is important that we are grounded in our own culture. Christin shares how she stays rooted and grounded in who she is before entering new spaces. She acknowledges that she lives within various cultures as a Black American woman, and it is important to bring those unique cultures with her. The difference between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation is our approach to the new culture. At The Soul Focused Group we want to help everyone learn to appreciate and honor each individual. We can learn to appreciate other cultures in a respectful way by coming from a place of interest. Cultural appreciation is building human connection.

Show Notes

• 3:43 Martin explains the shift towards cultural appreciation from cultural appropriation 
•  7:40 Martina shares the differences in African culture she witnessed while visiting
• 10:58 Christin and Martina discuss how independent children are in different cultures and how a sense of community can be stronger in some cultures
• 14:10 Martina shares her thoughts on how letting children be independent helps their creative genius and how she saw children raised in extended family households
• 18:58 Martin and Martina explore how to navigate entering and respecting a new culture
• 22:44 Christin and Martina explore how sharing cultural practices can be a form of appreciat

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