Culture creates how different groups of people behave. Today I have already been exposed to (2) completely different cultures and I feel the difference between cultures need to be spread.
Guyanese Culture
First I was in Richmond hills Queens today, the town that bears the highest population of Guyanese and Trini people. I visited my uncles home. In his living room, he has a hammock pitched on two walls in the room. A bucket filled with ice and beer by the hammock, and he was just relaxing, listening to music blowing out of speakers the size of 3 plasma screen TV's from the 80's. The best way to describe these people are hillbillies from the Caribbean.
Greek Culture
Towards the end of the day, I made my way to Paramus NJ, which has a very large Greek Orthodox Church. I walked into the home of my relatives and I saw the integration of the classical Greek art with modern home design, which is not as good as it sounds. My relatives would hang a Greek flag in the most undesirable area in the home. Also, the people are very prideful, and act as if they all were born with blue blood.
This being the very least describes how different cultures can be, but one can only recognize major differences if they were to live and experience both cultures. My mother was born in British Guyana. My father was born in Greece. I am a New Yorker
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