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?

I taught them to shop, cook and enjoy food from different cultures.

That backfired by the time of the eldest's 13th birthday.

Her and a barely three stone 6 year old absolutely rinsed me at a sushi bar for three hours. The little one was stalking the conveyor belt armed with her hello Kitty Hashi like a stork in search of a frog and the older one started quizzing the staff on what type of Miso paste they were using and whether they had any Mugicha.

Oh, and I made sure they saw the Looney Toons musical episodes.

Kill the Wabbit.

I was going to do all these things. I was going to be the most wonderful mother. But then I had kids and they fucking ruined it. We do an odd theme parks, an even rarer museum. Picnics that descend into sulks about crisps. Mainly eat crap at home. (Which is never clean) I’m not good. Not good at all.

Love this hilarious and slightly deranged thread.

We are waaay too arty in my house.

OP you are begging to have the mick taken.

I opened the thread thinking it was a discussion about rebuilding the country’s economy after covid.

That’s how much of a culture capital my house is 🤷‍♀️

Oh and in my house:
We read, watch documentaries, play chess, watch Netflix, eat food of diff cultures, erm learn Tik Tok dances, laugh at new memes trending on Insta.

Culture covers a lot.

Do you mean the culture of White Upper Class English?

Or what?

@MrsMcMuffins oh absolutely, I totally agree that no knowledge or art should be seen as “not for me”. It should be available for all to explore to see where a person’s passions and talents lie. I totally support access to information and the arts for all. The constraining factors ideally should only be one’s ability to understand and relate to something, ie ones own intellect and passion. But, providing exposure to something for its own sake and providing exposure to something to create an assimilation between classes is very different I think. I don’t know if you saw the recent Simon Schama documentaries on Romanticism, there was a rapper on there who thought Blake wasn’t for him at school but in later life recognised Blake’s relevance to today and made a very moving rendition of London. The school boy exposure to Blake had opened his mind to life when he was an adult, it was not something to maximise his bank balance but something to maximise his consciousness

What is interesting is if one draws a link between trying to institutionalise a merging of cultures between classes which is a good thing, so people can find common ground (Albeit on the ruling classes terms) and understanding This might help create a more seamless society and the horror that meets cultural appropriation which only serves to divide.

All I can say is go to the stately homes thread.

I'm trying to teach my two what a decent lemon drizzle tastes like. Proper dance moves. How to eat with a knife and fork.

Also how to love each other, and make each other laugh.

Call of Duty and Dance Mums

Heritage sites, classical african drumming, reading in French and Swahili and novels containing rich vocabulary

This is all so weird that I can't even tell if this one is serious or taking the piss

I’ve worked with young children (reception age) who don’t know a banana is a fruit you can peel and recoiled in horror at the idea is putting a chunk of watermelon in their mouth. I’d wager we need to fix the poverty issues (Which are going to multiply exponentially) first before even attempting cultural capital to support social mobility

I just asked my 15 year old what Cultural Capital means.

He said...

...London?
New York?

Ahhhhhh....

Seattle?

@Ihatefish, interesting about the rapper. I will look that up on utube. A lot of rap lyric gives Shakespeare a good run for his money actually.

OPRAH

Couldn't agree more.

In my classroom we spend time, when such things arise, discussing how to catch a bus, how you might travel to Paris, going on the London Underground. Such things free us.

The people who benefit most from the notion cultural capital are those already at the top of the social tree - they historically set the markers of culture, then lived by them to demonstrate that they were cultured.

Lantern 😂😂😂 your so ahead of the game how could we ever compete.

@unmarkedbythat

How very Bourdieu

Did nobody on Mumsnet do Sociology?!

Kinky can't you build in around the fruit, where it came from ect.

Mrs macmuffins.. I appreciate opera because df adored Pavarotti and Maria callas. On long car journeys we would be subjected, treated to it, with shut car windows and cigar smoke.

I remember the time he told me about this sneaky recording of mc from someone's handbag... It was so special to him.

My df however could not afford the roh.

Dh dp on the other hand are always off to the roh but dh hardly knows any opera at all! They never took him, exposed him... He wouldn't know any names of operas.

Such a disconnect. Infact I think I took dh for the first Time, he crossed his arms, got all settled in for a nice snooze and the curtain went back to the reveal, naked topples women.. Rigaletto.. I've never seen him revive so quickly! 😂

@Allergictoironing I would argue that some of the small shows in art centres with no scenery and not much on the way of props or costumes either are more culturally enriching than "Menopause Nights" starring someone off Loose Women at the local proper theatre.

Creativity over commerce perhaps? Not the lowest common denominator? But even low culture is culture. It doesn't really matter if your favourite Christmas Carol is In The Bleak Mid-Winter or Little Donkey. What counts is that you know some. Panto is culture. Even with someone off Loose Women in it.

I don't have enough cultural capital to enjoy going to hear different orchestras playing the same thing I've already heard. Or going to the same opera again. Or that thing at Jazz festivals where they all play "When the Saints Go Marching in"

[quote ChavvySexPond]@Allergictoironing I would argue that some of the small shows in art centres with no scenery and not much on the way of props or costumes either are more culturally enriching than "Menopause Nights" starring someone off Loose Women at the local proper theatre.

Creativity over commerce perhaps? Not the lowest common denominator? But even low culture is culture. It doesn't really matter if your favourite Christmas Carol is In The Bleak Mid-Winter or Little Donkey. What counts is that you know some. Panto is culture. Even with someone off Loose Women in it.

I don't have enough cultural capital to enjoy going to hear different orchestras playing the same thing I've already heard. Or going to the same opera again. Or that thing at Jazz festivals where they all play "When the Saints Go Marching in"

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I think we are agreeing here @ChavvySexPond, the point I was trying to make was that you can't draw a line & say "THIS is culture, but THAT isn't". Everyone's line between "culture" & "not culture" will be different, and I can see there being some cultural value in anything e.g. soap operas, reality dating shows etc, which teach us about how others live i.e. their culture.

@Allergictoironing

I think we are in agreement

I just went off on a tangent a bit. "Thinking aloud"

Bloody hell is this a thing now? As if life's not hard enough, it's difficult just getting kids to learn their spellings some weeks. We just do what we all enjoy.

Or that thing at Jazz festivals where they all play "When the Saints Go Marching in"

I'm not sure which Jazz festivals your going to.

I love that all the saints song I'd be happy to hear that at different jazz festivals, (never been to one)