You told me not to correlate material things with non-material things.
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That’s telling me how to view culture.
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This is dictating how I view my culture.
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Well, it is common sense.
I just see how you correlate them. Or rather how you equalize them. I still think it’s ridiculous. But I’m not stopping you from doing so.
Just sharing my magnificent charisma and wisdom.
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You told me to stop. It’s not common sense. That’s very rude. You’re saying you’re trying to understand other points of view, but claiming yours is common sense is just rude and wrong and kinda shows you weren’t trying from the beginning.
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We’ve also established that money is just as ritualistic as hair styling, so there’s nothing common about that “sense”
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Then I gotta explain myself.
I’m being sarcastic now, because to be honest, at some point this conversation was pleasant, and I thought we reached some common ground, but now it is just ridiculous to me personally, and I can’t help but be irritated by some rather silly things that were said here.
Again. From my point of view.
We’ve also established that money is just as ritualistic as hair styling, so there’s nothing common about that “sense”
I still hold onto this. Different types of rituals (or processes, whatever, because English is not my native language, and in my language, we do use the word ritual in a wider meaning). Exchanging goods might be just as old as hair styling.
Exchanging goods certainly is! But money is a very European idea and a lot of other countries survived for millennia without that cultural element.
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Hmm…when I read Tested’s posts, I don’t think she/he meant like it exactly how she/he said it. She/He might have meant something more like, “Culture is abstract” because it is, and it is not material, or physical.
There are physical things within a culture, but culture ITSELF is not material or physical, but rather abstract. I think that’s where this confusion is at the moment.
It is actually Asian…
Money is abstract too, though! We assign it value, which is why it goes up and down in value during crashes etc. Money is just as abstract as culture is. In fact, money is part of culture.
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Not all parts of Asia! China for sure. They had the money with the little holes in the middle, but certain parts of Asia still don’t use money. Europe as a whole does.
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Money, as paper money and coins are objects. The value of them is variable
Well, money isn’t abstract. I can hold money. No matter what culture a specific type of currency comes from, I can use currency always. Currency isn’t abstract. It is physical.
I mean, that money as it is known more or less now, goes from Asia
Hair is an object. Tribal jewellery is an object. Money doesn’t mean anything until it’s given the abstract concept of value. Jewellery doesn’t mean anything until it’s given the abstract concept of culture.
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OH!! YOu mean the concept of money! The value is cultural right right my bad
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Okay. and?
Yep! The coins are useless until we give them abstract value
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Yeah, the idea of value is abstract. But money/currency ITSELF is physical.
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