AM I A CULTURAL PRODUCT?

The question is very clear, it asks us if we are a cultural product, but in my opinion I think that we, the people, are not cultural products, but transmitters of cultural products, such as musical folklore, art ... Now, if I consider myself a cultural transmitter since I was a child, I have received influences from the culture in which I live. Actually, those of us from Ceuta, like any other border city in the world, cultural influence is always varied. Here in Ceuta, we receive a high influence on Moroccan culture. Those of us who have family on both sides of the border, we acquire a double culture, the Moroccan and the Spanish. What does this mean? Well, for example, before festivities both on one side of the border, and on the other, we celebrate them.

This influence also affects food, clothing, art, music ... Sometimes they make us see that having cultural influence that is not that of the country in which you are residing is not good. From this, inequality occurs between people who, having the same rights and obligations, are discriminated against by education system. We have different examples, such as latin people in the United States, who, being North American, suffer a violation of huge rights. All this has to make us reflect and think about what we have to improve. Ceuta lives uniquely to the Iberian peninsula, so we have to know very well the cultural wealth we have and exploit it, exploit it for good, where everyone can feel identified.

Here you have photos of the cultural influence to which I am subjected: