BUILDING CULTURAL CAPITAL

 CULTURALcapital as an idea is something that emerges as a consequence the disruptions taking place that are challenging comfortable beliefs invested in postcolonial status quo sensibilities.

In defining ‘culture’ the shared patterns of behaviour and the interactions, the cognitive constructs and the understanding that are acquired by social interactions. Thus, culture can be seen as the evolution of group identities and individual identities that come about through social patterning specific to a group – family, tribe, nation and all that relative to place and placemaking. .

Culture encompasses belief systems, food choices, what we wear and how, when we wear it. Moreover, the languages we use and share, the relationship models, musical expressions, and what is collectively understood to be moral and immoral. Then comes how we gather and where we we share food and other resources, who we accept and how we might greet visitors, how we behave with our loved ones and more still. .

As discussed earlier, there are four fundamental imperatives that define our humanity and ourselves as humans. Firstly, we all require the same life sustaining elements, oxygen, water, food. Then comes our need to identify and be identifiable. Then comes the need to procreate genetically and ideologically. Not lastly by any means comes the imperative to secure safe shelter, a place where we feel safe and are welcomed.

When we have satisfied these thing what in fact we have done is create CULTURALcapital via our mutual and collaborative investments in our 'placedness'.