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Hello all,
Just wanted to ask something quick. Could a 'rural culture' be considered a thing. I sitting on the bus today, and unfortunately my ear phones had broke, so I had no music to listen to, and I heard a couple of lads in front of me talking about a 'rural culture'. Something about farming, and family generations etc. Could anyone verify this please.
Thank you.
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Why not use Google to get the answer? Much simpler and quicker. Just input - What is rural culture
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Why not use Google to get the answer? Much simpler and quicker. Just input - What is rural culture
Hello Carole,
Thanks for the response. I did that, but found nothing of what these lads were describing on google - they were talking about farming, hard/tough families and all.
Cheers :)
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From some of the many explanations on Google
https://culturalcomparisonscom272.wordpress.com/urban-rural/rural-culture/
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/148706/8/08%20the%20concept%20of%20rural%20culture.pdf
If you are interested in rural culture perhaps your local library may be able to help in recommending books on the subject
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Hello all,
Just wanted to ask something quick. Could a 'rural culture' be considered a thing. I sitting on the bus today, and unfortunately my ear phones had broke, so I had no music to listen to, and I heard a couple of lads in front of me talking about a 'rural culture'. Something about farming, and family generations etc. Could anyone verify this please.
Thank you.
Of course rural culture exists, especially where people have lived, farmed or worked in the same area for generations. They can create and continue cultures, ideas, opinions, rituals which are distinct to a particular rural area.
Without knowing what the lads were saying, or where they were saying about, it's difficult to 'verify' if what they were saying was true of a particular area, but on the whole it can be verified that rural culture exists.
Edited to add: rural North East Scotland culture is different to the urban culture of Aberdeen. There's a massive difference between a teuchter and a toonser!
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Edited to add: rural North East Scotland culture is different to the urban culture of Aberdeen. There's a massive difference between a teuchter and a toonser!
My Irish people were culchies.
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Hello all,
Just wanted to ask something quick. Could a 'rural culture' be considered a thing. I sitting on the bus today, and unfortunately my ear phones had broke, so I had no music to listen to, and I heard a couple of lads in front of me talking about a 'rural culture'. Something about farming, and family generations etc. Could anyone verify this please.
Thank you.
That sounds a much more informed conversation than I often eavesdrop on when I am travelling :)
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I am in New South Wales, Australia, and I am a baby boomer, and worse still I was born and raised in that rural culture labelled 'country bumpkin' by my cousins in the 'big smoke' captial city of Sydney.
Even as a little child I knew the important question to ask in any conversation was 'wotcha reckon about them clouds' .... or repeating what was said at afternoon tea by granddad .... 'back in my day them shearers ate what cook cooked.' or in the school yard 'you hit it on the full, its six and out if you hit it over that fence, theres a bull in that paddock and you bring a new balll termorra' or a jingle on the radio 'get your A okay Used Car at Pats A okay Used Cars' would result in our family chiming back with 'Pats A okay but his used cars are not'
That was rural culture back in 1950s in central western New South Wales....
JM
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Hello all,
Just wanted to ask something quick. Could a 'rural culture' be considered a thing. I sitting on the bus today, and unfortunately my ear phones had broke, so I had no music to listen to, and I heard a couple of lads in front of me talking about a 'rural culture'. Something about farming, and family generations etc. Could anyone verify this please.
Thank you.
That sounds a much more informed conversation than I often eavesdrop on when I am travelling :)
It's amazing what you can learn when you listen.
First lesson in family history or local history: converse with elderly people or people who know the area well and listen to what they say.
Modern rural culture is fragile and present-day rural poverty is an overlooked topic. I mean in 21st century Britain.
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I would think "rural culture" mainly exists among the farming community. There is still quite a lot of it in evidence at sheep shows, ploughing matches etc. I live in a small village, and with a few exceptions, (such as myself!) most people are not born and bred country people. Once here, many people do stay and maybe make a different sort of rural culture.
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You're about in range of Reading, aren't ye, CS? Whole museum there, dedicated to Rural Culture.
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I would think "rural culture" mainly exists among the farming community. There is still quite a lot of it in evidence at sheep shows, ploughing matches etc. I live in a small village, and with a few exceptions, (such as myself!) most people are not born and bred country people. Once here, many people do stay and maybe make a different sort of rural culture.
Yeah, part of my family come from this "culture", I'm born and bred a country person, much like my father and his father.
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Yeah, part of my family come from this "culture", I'm born and bred a country person, much like my father and his father.
Then perhaps you'd like to answer your own question. :)
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Archivos - Edited to add: rural North East Scotland culture is different to the urban culture of Aberdeen. There's a massive difference between a teuchter and a toonser!
You can still pick the country loons oot on the toon yet - nae strae ahin the lugs nooadays, sharp brains rinnin their ain businesses bit still different fae their toon cousins.
And ye can still hear the difference atween the spik o' Meldrum, say, and Mugiemoss, if yer lugs are atuned.
(Guess fit een I am!)
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I think that the question should be - Is there still any rural culture?
I can remember a time when there was only one telephone in the village - now everyone has one in their pocket. It can bring the whole world to their door. Why settle for Blue Nun or Black Tower when an online advisor and shipper can have the exactly correct wine to go with your Frappé Mystique a la Maison first thing tomorrow morning?
All our cultures are getting homogenised and it is survival of the fittest. Every celebrity wedding becomes the latest trend.
If we want to keep our cultures (urban and rural), then we must work at it, or they will fall by the wayside and be forgotten.
Regards
Chas
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If we want to keep our cultures (urban and rural), then we must work at it, or they will fall by the wayside and be forgotten.
Regards
Chas
Judging by the many CTTV scenes I've seen of gangs kicking one lone figure on the ground, it's obvious that The 1892 Marquise of Queensbury Rules aren't applied anymore.
When I was young fathers used to make sure their sons knew of "Gentleman Jim" at an early age & exactly what was expected of them, which was; be fair; fight fair and be even, in that if you can't sort out your differences by talking, it was one boy against one boy and the others stood back and didnt take part in the fisticuffs.
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Archivos - Edited to add: rural North East Scotland culture is different to the urban culture of Aberdeen. There's a massive difference between a teuchter and a toonser!
You can still pick the country loons oot on the toon yet - nae strae ahin the lugs nooadays, sharp brains rinnin their ain businesses bit still different fae their toon cousins.
And ye can still hear the difference atween the spik o' Meldrum, say, and Mugiemoss, if yer lugs are atuned.
(Guess fit een I am!)
Hahaha! You definitely can tell the difference. And I do ken fit een you are!
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I think there is still a rural culture. There have been changes, thanks to internet, TV and cars people are more connected to urban culture and influences from other countries but it still exists. The Young Farmers are still a thing around here, we still have a yearly cattle show and other yearly events that have their roots in history. Farms have been lost to urbanisation and farm hands lost to technology but farms that remain are still passed down the family.
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There`s definitely a rural culture here in Carmarthenshire, to the extent I got a great whiff of pigs from a man in a supermarket asking me where the hotdog sausages were ( he was standing right in front of them ). This went on to a 5 minute conversation on the state of farming and how difficult it`s become. I`ve no idea who he was but he was certainly interesting.
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Billy, you raise a couple of interesting points about rural life.
People talk(ed) to each other, even to strangers. Interest in other people/nosiness, call it what you will.
Farming is a stressful business; always was, but with many additional worries now. Especially now, when they don't know what scenario to plan for. It can also be a lonely job. Some farmers have no one except close family to talk to on a daily basis. At one time there would have been other farmers in a similar situation in the community whom they met regularly and whose families had known and supported each other for generations. Mental health is a subject of concern. Prince Charles set up a rural welfare charity.
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I think it must be my genes ! I`ve so many ag labs, especially on my mother`s side, her mother`s family had lived in the same small village for over 200 years.
I could never have done it myself, out in all weathers ( well, I did do that ) at all times of the day and night - they have my admiration.
I call where I live now semi- rural, we`re near to town but surrounded by countryside. At our small local supermarket, there`s often a sight of someone obviously a famer. I saw one estate car with the boot filled with straw which looked like animals may have been bedding down in it !
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I think it must be my genes ! I`ve so many ag labs, especially on my mother`s side, her mother`s family had lived in the same small village for over 200 years.
I could never have done it myself, out in all weathers ( well, I did do that ) at all times of the day and night - they have my admiration.
I call where I live now semi- rural, we`re near to town but surrounded by countryside. At our small local supermarket, there`s often a sight of someone obviously a famer. I saw one estate car with the boot filled with straw which looked like animals may have been bedding down in it !
To be honest, if there are many Ag Labs in your tree, then you probably do have the genes. You see, my father's side is the farming side. His mother's was not. But my his fathers (my grandfathers) was. And both his mother and father were. On the mother's side, there was a very wealthy farmer, and he had about 5 children, I think 3 sons and two daughters. He bought a very large farm for each of the 3 boys, and a house for the 3 children. And all through this line, most are listed as farmers and ag labs.