England is "Junior" Partner to India!
05 August 2010, 08:06 AM
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I have never been to China and don't know that much about Chinese culture to be honest so won't comment. In terms of India though you'll find that as well as ancient culture its modern/pop culture is just as vibrant. You only have to look at things like the influence of Bollywood, Indian music, art, food and fashion to see that. It is pop culture granted but it has a worldwide influence.
Bollywood is banal, it's not high culture.
05 August 2010, 08:10 AM
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It's interesting that the orthodoxy makes a virtue of birth control etc and 'sustainable' population levels but the needs of capitalism are polar opposite.
05 August 2010, 08:29 AM
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For my education could you please define high culture, as I've never heard that expression used before
05 August 2010, 08:40 AM
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If you read my post you would see I never sought to imply something as 'pop' as Bollywood is anything other than what is often referred to as 'pop culture'. Its but one example of India's current influence on the world through cinema, music, literature, art, fashion and food ie what is often termed loosely 'culture'
For my education could you please define high culture, as I've never heard that expression used before
For my education could you please define high culture, as I've never heard that expression used before
If a society enables the artist to achieve his full creative potential then you can have high culture. Normally society gets in the way with commercial, political or economic pressures. High culture is rare but ancient india did achieve it just as greece and rome. India today though produces low culture.
05 August 2010, 08:46 AM
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That's an 'average' wage and comes from a country that is very poor at collecting data, so the stats themselves cannot be relied upon. Its all very well to google a figure and spout some nonsense but I take it you have never been there or do business there?
I have business links with the country and can tell you there are far cheaper places to manufacture in the world than India
I have business links with the country and can tell you there are far cheaper places to manufacture in the world than India
As for my business, well if you're that interested I have increased our company's sales there from almost nothing to around 1.25 million quid during that time, so I think I can confidently say that I know a little bit about what goes on there.
05 August 2010, 10:39 AM
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It's opposed to mass or low culture.
If a society enables the artist to achieve his full creative potential then you can have high culture. Normally society gets in the way with commercial, political or economic pressures. High culture is rare but ancient india did achieve it just as greece and rome. India today though produces low culture.
If a society enables the artist to achieve his full creative potential then you can have high culture. Normally society gets in the way with commercial, political or economic pressures. High culture is rare but ancient india did achieve it just as greece and rome. India today though produces low culture.
05 August 2010, 10:47 AM
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No Google or "average" wage involved mate. This figure came from the mouth of a plant manager at one of the dozen or so different factories I have visited there during the past 2.5 years: his production line operators earn US$ 100 per month, which is about GBP 760 per year.
As for my business, well if you're that interested I have increased our company's sales there from almost nothing to around 1.25 million quid during that time, so I think I can confidently say that I know a little bit about what goes on there.
As for my business, well if you're that interested I have increased our company's sales there from almost nothing to around 1.25 million quid during that time, so I think I can confidently say that I know a little bit about what goes on there.
05 August 2010, 10:52 AM
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Which is actually more important to a country's economy and the lot of its people, its "High Culture" or its commercial success?
Should we be pouring our taxes into the support of the arts?
Les
05 August 2010, 07:18 PM
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