{"id":4715,"date":"2014-06-20T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2014-06-20T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T06:02:31","slug":"i-want-all-the-cultures-of-all-the-lands-to-be-blown-about-my-house-as-freely-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/i-want-all-the-cultures-of-all-the-lands-to-be-blown-about-my-house-as-freely-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI want all the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled.\u00a0 I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> – Mohandas K. Gandhi<\/p>\n

I absolutely enjoy learning about other cultures.\u00a0 I love learning about different traditions people have, different foods they enjoy, different religions they practice\u2026I love it because it always helps me feel closer to different cultures when I understand their belief systems and I love it because it helps expand my own view of this world we live in.\u00a0 We often become so trapped in our own little cultural box where we create our little \u201cnorm\u201d and we forget that to learn we must step outside of our comfortable little box and venture out to meet new people and learn new things.\u00a0 Every time we can learn about someone else\u2019s culture our minds expand and our views grow broader and our hearts get bigger.\u00a0 We gain an appreciation for others that can only come when you are willing to experience a little of their world and what \u201cnorm\u201d is for them.<\/p>\n

Tonight my family attended the beginning of an elaborate Indian wedding celebration for a very dear friend. I say the beginning because the wedding celebration will take place over several days as is a tradition for Indian weddings.\u00a0 My daughter and I donned our Indian attire that we were excited to wear because we love all the jeweled gowns and the amazing necklaces and earrings we get to wear when we dress up in India clothing.<\/p>\n

\"amy<\/a>\"amy<\/a>Then we headed off to the home of the bride to be.\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s event was the Mendhi celebration night where the bride\u2019s hands and feet are drawn on in great detail with henna in beautiful patterns to prepare her for her upcoming wedding day.\u00a0 All of us women at the party got henna on our hands as well.<\/p>\n

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Looking around at the event tonight I\u00a0<\/span>couldn’t\u00a0help but be taken in by all the gorgeously bright colors of fabrics on all of the\u00a0guests that are so much the trademark of India attire.\u00a0 The gowns are beautiful and everything is bedazzled in the most ornate fashion.\u00a0 I listened as the India music played and we even joined in on the dance floor doing our best to learn some of the Bollywood dances.\u00a0 It was so much fun to get to be a part of this wonderful celebration and I loved that my two children were able to experience such a rich cultural experience.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait for the next few days of activities for this wedding and for all the beautiful clothing and jewelry we get to wear.\u00a0 This will be my first India wedding to attend every one of the events associated with it so I know I will learn a ton over these next few days.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it is so important for all of us to seek out opportunities to participate in the traditions and cultures of other countries.\u00a0 It is such a wonderful way to teach our families and to expand our views.\u00a0 We gain a love for other people when we experience their world.\u00a0 Whether we learn by traveling to these countries, or by reading a book about them, we can always find ways to expand our understanding of the world around us.\u00a0 My challenge for everyone this weekend is to pick one culture that interests you around the world and learn one new thing about it over the weekend.\u00a0 Allow the cultures of all lands to be blown freely about your house!<\/p>\n

Have an amazing weekend everyone!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled.\u00a0 I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 – Mohandas K. Gandhi I absolutely enjoy learning about other cultures.\u00a0 I love learning about different traditions people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4365,4366,903,4363,4364,4357,970,240,96,89,1899,2443,113,4351,83,51,4353,4367,4349,3636,4360,4352,4358,910,4362,4361,1578,233,111,35,4350,4348,448,4359,2559,4354,483,2705,4355,4356,3081],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avni-pate","tag-avni-patel","tag-belief","tag-bollywood","tag-bride","tag-broaden","tag-challenge","tag-children","tag-culture","tag-dance","tag-diverse","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-expand","tag-experience","tag-family","tag-foods","tag-freinds","tag-gandhi","tag-generation","tag-henna","tag-horion","tag-horizons","tag-india","tag-india-wedding","tag-indian-wedding","tag-interest","tag-learn","tag-learning","tag-love","tag-mendhi","tag-mohandas-k-gandhi","tag-music","tag-norm","tag-parents","tag-religions","tag-teach","tag-traditions","tag-trapped-in-a-box","tag-view-of-the-world","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}