Definition Of Culture
"Culture is the vast structure of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, habits, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies, and practices peculiar to a particular group of people which provides them with a general design for living and patterns for interpreting reality.” (1) Culture gives meaning to reality, correctly or incorrectly. Culture has the power to compel behavior and the capacity to reinforce ideas and beliefs about human functioning. Culture is the invisible medium in which all human functioning occurs. Patterns of behavior are born out of culture because culture shapes patterns of thinking. Nothing human happens outside of culture; therefore nothing humane or inhumane happens outside of culture. Culture is to humans as water is to the fish. Culture is our total environment. Educational content and teaching methods are born out of culture. Culture is the invisible dimension of all educational content. Therefore, just as the nature of the water (salt, fresh or polluted) influences the reality (survivability) of particular types of fish, so too do different cultures, influence the reality of particular groups of people. Since culture is like our water, humans who are not in the appropriate cultural environment they were designed to thrive in, will act inappropriately and fail to thrive just like "fish out of water." (2) Thriving is not to be confused with “making it” or succeeding in a suboptimal environment. Once we understand the dynamics of culture, we see, it is not something we can add on to what we are doing. Culture is the total human process. Everything we do comes out of culture. (3) Culture emerges out of knowledge of self and knowledge of self emerges out of culture.Culture Is Everything
Infusing into educational content, the worldwide experiences of Africans from ancient to present times, is important because it situates us irrevocably on the stage of Humanity. For Africans, studying and having knowledge of African contributions, consciously reaffirms our meaning as humans. For those who do not acknowledge their African descent, and want to support humanity and Africans in any way, you also must study and share our ancient and ongoing contributions to civilization. This will help say to the world, “our lives matter” and will help save physical lives. This knowledge of Africans, and of yourselves, is a necessary step before attempting to “save African souls” because it is actual everyday, all day conscious behavior that is salvation for everyone. Culture is the core and fundamental quality of human beingness and becoming, (4) a process of transformation, (5), which is either assisted or hampered by the educational process. By infusing the missing African component of world history into education, we, and the world, reaffirm the inalienable right of African people to:(1) exist as a people
(2) continue to contribute to the forward flowing process of human civilization
(3) shape and share world reality in response to our own energy and spirit. Infusing African culture and contributions into the content of education is only half the charge. African culture worldwide must be infused into the intent of education. (6) This is only sensible since Africans started the first education systems.
Character Is A Part Of Culture
Character is the mark of someone or something which signifies its distinctive quality. Character is the complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person, group or nation. It is the detectable expression or evidence of the processes which control the transmission of one’s hereditary information (ancestors) and nature. A person's character is indicative of the past within them. This is another reason why the past always matters. Educational content must be infused with the character of Africans in order to stimulate and reinforce the growth and development of African mental and ethical traits (character). (7)Education Resolves Violence
As a result of cultural infusion into education content and intent, all people will be able to honestly see African culture, as the hidden key to our educational excellence and accomplishments in civilization [This is already known and acknowledged by those who transform people into puppets and is also known by some of the puppets themselves.]. Through a re-education process, all people will be able to see Africans in the pure light of humanity, and no longer through the obscuring darkness of miseducation that sickens minds and spirits at the same time. (8) Africans are the hub of the human ecosystem and the hub of humanity. This is why lower self dominated people (those who try to dominate others) must attack that which is most unlike them. That which is most unlike a thing is its greatest threat. Therefore, humanity must be attacked in order to make what is horrendous look good. To the degree the lower-self accomplishes this task and to the degree we assist, is the degree to which everyone loses their humanity because sickness, violence and the lower-self knows no boundaries and is coming for everyone by attempting to cut off the source of humanity and civilization that came through and out of Africa and Africans worldwide. If there is civilization anywhere, it is the result of African culture. Thus, to attack African culture is self-admitted, direct evidence of the lack of civilized behavior, thus civilization.A Disregard For Life Is Taught At SchoolViolence Ends At Home (1) Nobles, Wade W., “The Infusion of African and African-American. Content: A Question of Content and Intent,” Accessed 12/12/14, www.nuatc.org/articles/pdf/Nobles_article.pdf, p. 12.
(2) Ibid., p. 1 [quoted and paraphrased]; (3) Ibid., p. 3; (4) Ibid., p. 4-5; (5) Ibid., p. 6 (6) Ibid., p. 4-5;
(7) Ibid, p. 5. (8) Ibid., p. 7.
