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    ReThink CULTURE: The Untold Perspective
    ReThink CULTURE: The Untold Perspective
    ReThink CULTURE: The Untold Perspective
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    ReThink CULTURE: The Untold Perspective

    By Olumuyiwa Omole

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    Problems like greed, corruption in communities persist because more than before, we are losing consciousness of the idea of Community and unless we act as such, no true sustainable development can be assured.

    This has led to so many contradicting versions of how we live and sparked up controversies destructive competitions instead of a shared interest in the prosperity within and between communities.

    If care is not taken, there would be no future or productive legacy for next generation we are claiming to work for. There would be no *Continuity* because no one would have left anything worth holding building on.

    ReThink CULTURE is carefully written to address the critical issues which are elements of solution for building and sustaining the prosperity of people, places and things from the understanding of CULTURE.

    ReThink CULTURE is the book that serves as an informal but educative guide book for communities, businesses and other entities that must thrive for the prosperity of all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMay 21, 2020
    ISBN9781716910616
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      ReThink CULTURE - Olumuyiwa Omole

      thing!

      PREFACE

      There is so much to learn about Culture and Community and there is so much to consider in the area of the Conformity of a Community and the Continuity of its culture. So many great authors have done justice to the issues of community structure and the factors that constitute to its prosperity but this short analogical discourse is simply trying to add but a little to the body of knowledge of Culture and Community in an informal and yet insightful manner.

      Re.Think CULTURE is an introduction of introductions because it is a sequential and structural compilation of topics or subjects that need to be given specific insight and a detailed discourse in the nearest future. In this book, you will find some basic understandings of Culture and Community that are evidently present but have been overlooked due to adherence of a tested and trusted manner of responding to issues.

      Re.Think CULTURE is written from the realization that Culture can be approached from a different perspective which puts the sustenance of a community above the ambitions of individuals.

      When people think about Culture what comes to their mind always has to do with social interactions and solidarity but Culture encompasses every area of our lives and it does not exclude erudite scientists, noble peacemakers and vibrant public servants or political figures. Culture is how we see life and respond to it with attitude and aptitude.

      Most importantly, Re.Think CULTURE is coming from the perspective of a global mutual respect for the diversities of culture and equal opportunity that would facilitate equity and sustainability from the basic community level. Some of the analogies used in this book are unpopular and this is deliberate because of the intention to drive home the mindset that we are all going through the same thing in different manners because of the peculiarity of each and every one.

      Again, this piece is an Introduction to Series of 14 Publications of Re.Think CULTURE. So stay tuned as we dish out these revolutionary topics to you one after another.

      ENJOY!

      Community

      CHAPTER ONE

      TRUE COMMUNITY

      There was once a time when community is all people have as identity, resources and culture. There was a time when community catered for itself because the people that constituted it recognized the beauty and benefit of oneness and synergy. But presently, individualism is promoted and community is fast falling apart. Individuals are now forming pseudo communities that will only foster their personal agendas with the communal agenda as a façade.

      The uneven access to power and influence is because communities that are meant to be untied have been divided and ultimately conquered from within. Ironically, they have also been united afterwards under an umbrella of individuals who have found a common ground for people as a means of forming communities based on personal interests that are not necessarily critical to the sustenance of the communities.  This approach has even caused more division because of multiplicity of opportunistic perspectives that are tearing communities apart but silencing the negative alarms by offering personal incentives. Creation of community based on the selfish ambition of an individual has caused a major divide than anyone could have ever anticipated and is constantly militating against the natural sense of community.

      The global system is meant to function as a combination of local sustainable communities working together solely on the basis of mutualism and sacrifice. Information/Digital Technology is simply meant to foster this connectivity and collectivism without infringing on the structure of any community. Now in the bid to be known globally, many are disconnecting themselves mentally from where they belong to where they want to belong; few people are physically leaving where they belong to where they want to belong; while very few are trying to stay and make where they belong the place to be.

      Akufo is a community in the South-western part of Nigeria and it is home to many dwellers that are passionate about farming and the business of it. After engaging the farmers in the community in a conversion, I could see their zest for farming and how they would love to increase their production every year. But my conversation with these farmers gave me a rude shock that I have never recovered from. The shock got me thinking more about how people have abandoned many communities like Akufo only to come once in a while to cart away what the farmers have worked relentlessly to produce by offering a ridiculous

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