Dialectic in Cultures

 

During my sailing voyage I had the pleasure of passing through the beautiful Polynesian Islands in the the South Pacific.   Here is a cultural account relating to their current dialectical dilemma.

We see everyday life as a simple walk in the park, with its elusiveness and routine. The average person would partake in the everyday activities, wether they are work orientated, leisure activities and even to simply eat. That too would have been a similar case for the average pre-colonised Polynesian, only that the nature of his or her daily routine, however, the feeling of elusiveness would still remain. They both had some form of repetition, as much that everyday holds an unpredictable occurrence it still possesses a ubiquitous regularity.

This then leads to the time when the Polynesian’s had their space of everyday life interrupted, when another culture with such a hegemonic social setting, decides to convert their everyday life to one similar of their own. This is what everyday life isn’t.

Now we come to look at the dialectical face of conforming to an everyday life as a colonised native, a second citizen in one’s own country. This new paradox becomes their new thesis or culture, as the ideologically dominated existent. Through exchanges of technology, like any colonised community today, their everyday life is surrounded in a false sense of utopia, and the knowledge of history lies within the last tattoo.