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What is the relationship between knowledge and culture ?

Knowledge as a term can mean many things however no all knowledge can be expressed so places like madeira which is vary traditional and cultural place meaning that culture of there ancestors is really the main part of there lives which compared to the modern society can seem very different as modern society is so varied compared to madeira as no many tourist are attracted to living in madeira. In such cases it is hard for some knowledge to be available to all cultures as in madeira the only real way to be one with the culture is to be or have a long history in madeira and this is what makes the Madeiran tradition so special and heavily protected.

My personal experiences have been interesting as I have many friends from Madeira and my mother is from madeira but I still haven’t got to grip with the culture as all my life and even now I have learnt the Portuguese culture which is different to the Madeiran culture and quite substantially. Through my life the story’s I have been told have been really informative as I though I had learnt a lot until more recently where I have found such substantial differences to what I believed. This year however I want to offset the stuff I don’t now when I travel to madeira at Christmas which I think is the perfect time to go as its where culture is expressed most and also religion which is different to jersey and Portugal but plays a massive pat in there culture.

What is Knowledge?

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Knowledge can be anything such as religion or belief this is knowledge because it is what people have thought for millions of years and what people keep thinking this creates a sense that that is correct. My expedition for example is Cristo rei in Lisbon Portugal this has been up since 1959 which is most of our lifetimes this gives people like a reason to believe as why would someone build a statue so large and so time consuming if it had no deeper meaning?
I think this statue was built as a sacrifice of time and resources to show how they want to represent their religion.
Knowledge can also be opinion which what everyone believes this could be caused by not being educate or just never being exposed to things like how some kid which have been surrounded by war ever since they were born then they might not know a world where bombs and gunshots are going of everywhere.
Knowledge can also be facts and be proven by science this include things like how coronavirus is a virus this is proven after extensive testing on characteristic and how the cell is made which many years back couldn’t of been proven this can mean that technology advancing has allowed us to use stuff light x rays and microscopes to see things we would of never seen like little bone fractures or how large a bacteria is very accurately all due to advances it technology which have proven ideas or theories but also have falsified theories and ideas which made new thing been proven.
Knowledge can also be experiences like how maybe one day you saw a squirrel for the first time, and it was a red squirrel so until you found out that there where many types of squirrels whenever someone asked what colour was a squirrel that person that has only ever seen a red squirrel then they will get the image that the squirrel is red and replay with the wrong answer.