E-Culture
Imagine a person, whose parents are from Germany and United States, who is born and raised in Sweden, later studied in Germany, lives and works in Great Britain and is married to an Italian. What culture does that person have?
In our generation, the culture is not anymore nation specific. Culture has never been something that you can inherit, since ones culture is created by the process of life. It happens here and now. Thanks to the Internet, the barriers between different nations and cultures have been thrown down. Nowadays the national, traditional cultures are getting more and more blurred all over Europe. So what do people do if they don’t have an inherited culture, one might ask. The answer is simple: they make it up as they go along the path of life. In a time of severe transmigration and the changes and chances related to that, people’s national identity has changed from within.
The culture of our generation is the so called E-Culture. You could say that we are living in Internet; so much of our daily life is affected by Internet and our family and friends are linked to us through the Internet. This new culture grows every day and soon it will be the most dominating culture in the world. An identity that grows stronger with the possibilities with Web 2.0. Nationality and nations do not hold that great of importance any longer. In addition to the fact that all users seem to be equal in front of their displays, the changeability of our culture increases rapidly. Welcome to the era of the constantly changing E-Culture.
Posted in 2006+07 M100| 07.09.06
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