Cultural Capital - what do you do in your household?

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We have a huge range of books, frequent theatre visits (although these have been online in recent times), visits to art galleries/exhibitions, support with learning languages.

What's anyone else up to?

@nannykatherine

I’m struggling genuinely with understanding what cultural capital is ???

Liverpool isnt it?

Anybody watched Gilmore Girls (clearly Netflix is part of my cultural capital!). They had ridiculous amounts of cultural capital. Within an episode they'd reference Tolstoy, Britney Spears, a random political event from the 70s, a random Jewish comedian from the 50s, Shakespeare, Bon Jovi. They were able to mix with the WASPy types and the working class people in their town with ease and make everyone like them.

Not sure what this comment adds to the conversation but it's what sprang to mind.

When my DD was in year 2, her teacher tried to introduce some capital culture to the class. Arranged a trip to a first class local art museum....Everything was going great until 2 young hooligans got into a shoving match and knocked over one of the very expensive sculptural exhibits, smashing it to bits as it hit the ground. Needless to say, that was the last capital culture event that the art museum participated in with a school class.

@Manteo

Anybody watched Gilmore Girls (clearly Netflix is part of my cultural capital!). They had ridiculous amounts of cultural capital. Within an episode they'd reference Tolstoy, Britney Spears, a random political event from the 70s, a random Jewish comedian from the 50s, Shakespeare, Bon Jovi. They were able to mix with the WASPy types and the working class people in their town with ease and make everyone like them.

Not sure what this comment adds to the conversation but it's what sprang to mind.

That's what I want for my children.

In a slightly related note one of our friends has just broken it off with someone younger they were previously very excited to be in a relationship with because "they didn't get any of my references"

I haven’t seen any ‘spiteful’ posts, just funny ones.

For example, I am post-graduate level educated and was gutted that Covid restrictions cancelled my booked trips to the ballet and opera this summer.

I do also have a chess board in my Animal Crossing house

Being culturally aware (or whatever the current wanky-approved title is) does not equate to having no sense of humour. But, unfortunately, there are always those who have to try too hard to achieve some fictional standard 🙄

I don't like the term. I think for our family is just normal eg my grandparents met in a theatre in 1916 (in the cheapest seat as had little money then). My father took us to the opera, not because of culture capital but because he liked it, ditto my mother the ballet and both parents were great readers so we were/are. I love singing and play the piano and sing most days and met my children's father in a Cathedral but none of this was some kind of special cultural capital attempt. It was just normal life, seamless, just as I read and read and read as a teenager because I loved all kinds of books.

What I like will differ from someone else and neither is better nor worse. I can usually find something in common with most people of all kinds. I would say that was more because of a thirst for knowledge than any kind of cultural capital exercise.

I agree with the person above saying it is also about being interested in things including current affairs (but also history, geography, psychology, anthropology etc)