Limiting Culture

Last night it was my first real contact with Polish culture in Sydney. There is a big house in Ashfield called Polish Club. Most of the people there were of Australian citizenship and if you press them a bit they try to speak Polish : ). Nonetheless together with my partner we felt like being in Poland again. The beginning was awesome:


The performance of folk dancers was full of uhhh energy, youth and very fancy dresses. I liked it. Then it started to repeat the scheme of avarage Polish wedding alike party I ve been so many times to(simple music, a lot of alcohol and food) and ..... I started to feel like trapped.
Culture is deriving from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" - Wikipedia says. Cultivation makes me thing of growing the crops on the fields or weeding in the garden. You have to do it in order to survive but you can’t get stuck to that. You have to find way to free yourself, otherwise you start to smoke cigarettes, drink strong alcohol and complain.

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