Out of touch with culture?

Does anyone feel as if they are out of touch with their own culture? I’ve grown up and been told that I’m washed from my culture. I’ve grown up knowing some things from family etc, but I don’t know if my autism has stopped me from understanding my culture as something deep in my heart and soul. It doesn’t feel connected, and when others know more about my own culture, it makes me feel as if I should know more.

its like not knowing pop culture. But can I really start trying to „study” pop culture just so I can catch up. Is there even a way to catch up at all?

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  • I believe that we, as a people, became too postmodern. Other cultures here are fine, but in the past they had to integrate into the native culture. Diversity, on the other hand, made us dog-eat-dog. No other culture is made to integrate. Which leads to societal collapse.

  • Britain has always been culturally diverse, we've been trading with the rest of the world since at least the Bronze Age, the Romans enforced their culture on the Iron Age inhabitants of Britian and the rest of Europe. Roman Britain would have been a very multicultural place, we can see that from grave stone memorials, things like the Vindolanda Letters, even in DNA and artifacts found in archaelogical sites.

    Anglo-Saxon England was diverse too, Christian missionaries from different cultures wandered about the place, they wanted others to conform to thier way of thinking, especially the Roman ones, who sewed division with other forms of Christianity and were very hostile.

    The Vikings both did and didn't try and fit in with the native cultures of the places they occupied.

    Probably the biggest dividers were the Normans, all across Europe and th Middle East wherever they went there was war and division, take overs of local populations and their cultures. In England the local people were more or less enslaved, a look at the Doomsday Book shows who owned what in 1066 and who owned what in 1086, the change in ownership was staggering, also English clergy were marginalised and replaced by Normans.

    I come from a large town with many different people and cultures, it's normal to me to see different skin colours and hear different languages. Even after all the years I've lived in Wales and Scotland it still seems strange that there are so few non white people.

    People are being allowed to form and celebrate their own cultures and sub-cultures, groups that were previously hidden, like us ND's, or LBGTQI are able to be out and proud and accepted, mostly, there are still a few dinosaurs that want a buttoned up, repressed and homogenised culture, where we're only allowed to be different behind closed doors, as long as nobody finds out.

    Many things we think of as British, like fish and chips aren't they came along with Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia.

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  • Britain has always been culturally diverse, we've been trading with the rest of the world since at least the Bronze Age, the Romans enforced their culture on the Iron Age inhabitants of Britian and the rest of Europe. Roman Britain would have been a very multicultural place, we can see that from grave stone memorials, things like the Vindolanda Letters, even in DNA and artifacts found in archaelogical sites.

    Anglo-Saxon England was diverse too, Christian missionaries from different cultures wandered about the place, they wanted others to conform to thier way of thinking, especially the Roman ones, who sewed division with other forms of Christianity and were very hostile.

    The Vikings both did and didn't try and fit in with the native cultures of the places they occupied.

    Probably the biggest dividers were the Normans, all across Europe and th Middle East wherever they went there was war and division, take overs of local populations and their cultures. In England the local people were more or less enslaved, a look at the Doomsday Book shows who owned what in 1066 and who owned what in 1086, the change in ownership was staggering, also English clergy were marginalised and replaced by Normans.

    I come from a large town with many different people and cultures, it's normal to me to see different skin colours and hear different languages. Even after all the years I've lived in Wales and Scotland it still seems strange that there are so few non white people.

    People are being allowed to form and celebrate their own cultures and sub-cultures, groups that were previously hidden, like us ND's, or LBGTQI are able to be out and proud and accepted, mostly, there are still a few dinosaurs that want a buttoned up, repressed and homogenised culture, where we're only allowed to be different behind closed doors, as long as nobody finds out.

    Many things we think of as British, like fish and chips aren't they came along with Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia.

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