365 Writing Prompts: Simply the best

Nasa is building a new Voyager spacecraft that will carry the best modern human culture what belongs on board?

The term “culture” has two meanings(1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent with symbols and to act creatively , and(2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world acted creatively and classified or represented their experiences.

Distinctions are currently made between the physical artifacts created by society , its so called material culture and everything else, including the intangibles such as language, customs etc. that are the main referent of the term “culture.”

Language and culture both emerged as a means of using symbols to construct social identity and maintain coherence within a social group too large to rely exclusively on the pre-human ways of building a community.

In that new Voyager, there will be one person representing his/her language, there will be chefs from different cultures, and fashion designers representing different  countries of the world.

We must have assistants of the chefs.

We’ll need musicians and their musical instruments,  to entertain the passengers.

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DP Daily Prompt: Simply the Best Post by Ranu

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What belongs on board simply the best. Nasa’s new voyager spacecraft will carry the best of human culture. Culture is defined as the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

2. The ideas customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language,religion,cuisine,social habits,music and arts.

Since the Voyager spacecraft intends to take the best of human culture,we have to decide who or what belongs there.Since Nasa is in the United States,is there going to be conflict of interest e.g Americans might think since it’s on our soil,only our culture,religion,language,cuisine,and social habits should be on board.

If we decide on the basis of human culture,that to my mind includes the whole world. There will be skeptics, who will  not agree about this subject i.e ‘Who belongs on board’?

What I think is there should be a debate and the participants should come from different culture,religion, language and social habits,the decision should come collectively.

It would be interesting to see how this goes!