culture
A bamboo grove in Kathmandu, Napal, and bamboo's ecology and use in culture, inspired me to formulate some thoughts about how to understand cultures, the relations between cultures, and the various ways of traveling within cultures and explore them, as well as between them.
International traveling means leaving one culture in order immerse oneself in another one. Human cultures ar variations on the endless cultural and environmental adaptations that homo sapiens has evolved into.
Western ideas of environmental conservation, often extended to cover traditional cultures, have sometimes conflicting relations with indigenous wisdom about conservation. Jane Goodal is presented as a case in point.
Proverbs are an essential distillation of cultural knowledge, values, and mores, that is, of cultures writ large. They play a role in transmitting such values and mores within and between generations.
