Values and cultures are a very serious necessity to anyone, myself included, as it guides principals like languages, beliefs, and any behaviors for our ideologies and prevents conflicts throughout society. (Newman 2016:36). I, like many others, only saw values as something passed amongst others and what is commonly known, …show more content…
(George Santayana). Perhaps not believing it myself, but certainly others do, that history has always been a definition of who we are today. We cannot simply change our past, my past, as it is set in stone. While this may be true, the inferences or interpretations of the meanings are constantly moving and shifting. (Newman 2016:23). Society wishes to base their morals and ideas off of historical facts and the laid out bigger picture. They search for a meaning amongst the texts and stories of long past dates. It matters not if the facts can be found, but rather that the facts are often not found amongst history of mankind. (Mills 1959:17). Personally, I’ve never minded interpretive history besides entertaining pieces of human interactions. It never really occurred to me to find meaning in dusty tombs for myself rather than just see it as past actions that I’d rather not occur again such as war and inequality. However, people could and would oppose my opinion and perhaps find it almost frivolous! I have no qualms with society finding a different way to see our existence but they should simply equate our success to what we, as a society, have made through our own influences.
Culture has always been something extremely important to who and what will be as a society. I, for one, believe we should stop looking at the bigger picture of everyone but start imagining a society where every microlevel is just as important as the societal development we have grown accustom to. Our actions and values are just as important as the next interaction we’ll face every day, the optional bigger picture perspective never allowing this to