What does it mean to be a whole, fully alive, experiencing and choiceful human being?
• tweetmeme_source = ‘theurbantimes’; • Share • (function() { var s = document.createElement(‘SCRIPT’), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName(‘SCRIPT’)[0]; s.type = ‘text/javascript’; s.async = true; s.src = ‘http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js’; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); • Email … culture is the opened, read and understood pages of the “book of life”, pages which when assimilated by the individual become his selfhood (Spirkin, 1983) At the Centre for British African Caribbean Studies (CBACS) here in London we are opening up the pages of the ‘book of life’ and reading for deep understanding so we can learn how to live choicefully and not automatically. We are choosing to be conscious creators of culture. The majority of people when they think and talk about culture fail to appreciate that it is the human being who is the maker of culture: i.e. each one of us. Although many respondents to the earlier Race for Life article failed to see a problem with ‘black’ and ‘white’ ident
