Culture Isn't Transferable




 


I've already written about Sanders deciding to become the head coach at Colorado. Time will tell if he'll do there what he did at Jackson State, but this post isn't about his abilities as a coach. 

This is about culture. 

The above tweet shows Deion standing on the field, bobbing his head, as the crowd sings along with a rap song. The energy is off the charts. Its loud, its hype, but its a different type of loud, a different type of hype. The energy you hear and see in the clip, is black culture. Disclaimer: I'm not saying black culture is better or worse than any other culture, I'm simply making an observation. 

The woman who tweeted this, Tayler Kilgore, didn't know the can of worms she opened when she expressed her eagerness to see this same energy in Boulder, Colorado. 

Here's some quick statistics:

According to census.gov, Boulder, Colorado has 89.9% white population and 1.2% Black, compared to Jackson State, where the white population is 15% and the black population is 82%.

The college demographics are much the same. Colorado has 65% white and 2% black, while Jackson State has 85-90% black and 17% white.

A lot of the comments seem to agree with me:


She's right. A person isn't the culture, PEOPLE are the culture, and PEOPLE, specifically a certain type of people bring a certain type of culture which brings a certain type of energy. 

This of course, is my favorite:


With that being said, I have, based upon my own experiences traveling the world, noticed high energy culture and low energy culture, and it seems to me that high energy culture cannot transfer to low energy culture and vice versa, but they may be able to transfer between each other, i.e. low to low and high to high.

Anyway...

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