Do you learn a lot about cultures from the internet, TV, real life experiences?

**rashka** · 01-30-2012, 03:45 AM

How many of you ever heard of different ethnic terms before the onset of the Internet?

For example: Did you even hear about gypsies or did you even know who the Canarians were or that Malta or Albania were countries?

Did you only learn about the Iroquois, French and English settlers in school?

**heathen_son** · 01-30-2012, 04:47 PM

I learnt plenty of Black American culture from childrens TV. "Fresh Prince Of Belair", "Sister Sister", "Smart Guy", "Moesha", "Kenan and Kel", "In The House" etc, which were on daily.

But then, we also got "Pete and Pete", which helped make up for it.

I loved Geography at school. It was an opportunity to learn more about other cultures. Nothing European, but China, Japan, Brazil, Sri Lanka, South East Asia etc. It was focused on "Countries" and "Development" rather than "ethnicity" though.

When I was 17, I was invited to go with them to Hungary with friends. At that age, I had no idea where, or what it was! It seems shocking to me now, but I (and the majority of others too) was very ignorant of other cultures

...especially our own....

**Queen B** · 01-30-2012, 04:51 PM

Some through internet (mostly the far away cultures) and some from a previous job

Working on an airport, I get to ''learn'' about many different cultures/nationalities and how they behave.

**rashka** · 02-08-2012, 02:56 AM

I first learned about different cultures by schoolfriends. TV was not the same as school though.

**Stefan** · 02-08-2012, 03:02 AM

I have learned mostly from the internet. It started with a confusion about the distinctions between nationality, ethnicity, etc. Then I became interested in specific cultures(my ancestral ones and adjacent) as well as racial anthropology. My school's curriculum consists of the minimum, and the classes aren't rigorous enough to teach trends. Basically the history classes were memorization of information and a movie every day. There are no honors or AP social studies courses at my school either. Hopefully college courses are much different. Television teaches the wrong information, and I had to lose a lot of my "intuition" developed from a childhood consisting mostly of watching television when learning about cultures.

**Grumpy Cat** · 02-08-2012, 01:08 PM

Although I spent time in Texas and met some nice people, I learned from the Internet that there ain't no crazy like Texas crazy.

**safinator** · 02-12-2012, 12:40 AM

Yes, i learnt even what trolling is

**Loddfafner** · 02-12-2012, 03:30 AM

Way back before there even was an internet, I learned about geography and history through such ancient, long-forgotten artifacts as world almanacs and encyclopedias.

**McRingo** · 02-12-2012, 04:00 AM

"I learnt plenty of Black American culture from childrens TV. "Fresh Prince Of Belair", "Sister Sister", "Smart Guy", "Moesha", "Kenan and Kel", "In The House" etc, which were on daily."

I learned muy lotso about the English folk via the Upstairs Downstairs tv program and Benny Hill

**~~Raskolnikov~~** · 02-12-2012, 04:06 AM

I learnt plenty of Black American culture from childrens TV. "Fresh Prince Of Belair", "Sister Sister", "Smart Guy", "Moesha", "Kenan and Kel", "In The House" etc, which were on daily.

Were these the most of the shows you saw from the US?