Conversation With Katherine A Gift From The Journey: I versus We Cultural Narratives

11/11/19 • 10 min

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast "I" versus "We" Cultural Narratives
In my getting to know people from various cultural backgrounds, I am struck by the common factors and the differences. One of the major differences is whether an "individual" comes from a community based culture versus and individual based culture
The broader American cultural context is an individual based context. What do I mean? Think about the narratives that are used in this country. The climbing up the ladder of success by your bootstraps. The value of independence versus a collective decision. The freedoms of making your own individual decisions about who you marry, where you live, your profession and any other "I" decision that comes to mind. That is an intellectual way of stating, in this country we value choice and the freedom to make independent decisions.

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Conversation With Katherine A Gift From The Journey: Grief Death and Love

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast A Gift From The Journey: Grief, Death and Love
In this podcast I am talking about a very specific type of grief. The grief for someone that you have loved that has died. This is a knock you to your knees event and you are not sure that you will be able to get up. Maybe you are not sure that you even want to get up. Your world has suddenly changed and the hardest thing to accept is how quick death comes and the finality of death.
The world you knew, the person you knew, the love you knew has been replaced with the void of longing. In my own experience with death I gained an understanding of what I did not understand. I understood all of the cognitive things about death and the various conceptual contexts. I did not understand the experience of death.

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