#AllCulturesMatter: Notes for a course in Cultural Management, Ensenada, Mexico

#AllCulturesMatter
This is the foundation of Cultural Management and the road to cultural competency we ought to teach the young, and what I have been doing for decades as well. 

Educators need to master the art and science of teaching diversity and to integrate and infuse the themes of multiculturalism into the subject matter.

The young, of "Generation-C" or Gen-Covid need to be given guidance and offered humane and peaceful choices of what they are to do in life, in a world of such rapid and oftentimes violent changes that many of those restless will easily fall prey to those out to indoctrinate and turn the young into appendages and utilities of the powerful and egotistical interested in advanced destructive agenda.

Herein lie my continuing interest in guiding the young in managing culture, coming to terms with the impact of Covid-19, and feeling the changes of cultural hybrid in the self. Ultimately I see culture as organic, dynamic, constantly evolving, construct-laden, with the foundation of spirituality and scientific reasoning keeping the self still sane.

I do not merely teach about the concepts of culture bur how concepts inform the phenomenology of changes within the self, as experiences, signs, symbols, semiotics, sense-awareness of things around impact the psycho-physics aspects of the human mind, leading to personal cultural evolution -- these as culture gets reproduced and take the trajectory of being abling and disabling, being constructive and destructive and in-between.

What is "culture" if not a system of variegated meaning: of the self undergoing constant reconstruction, of the tools we use to work and play, the artifacts we create to solve problems or to amuse or even abuse ourselves, the rituals we participate in whether meaningful or not, the gods we worship, the house we inhabit -- all these as the still-evolving definition of "culture" as conceived and attempted to be defined by those studying it-- from Boas to Malinowski, to Levi-Strauss, to Mead, to Merle-Ponty, to Geertz, to Rosaldo and many others.

… --ar