| dc.description.abstract | The paper discusses the idea that culture starts at personal level and becomes a national culture and the idea that
a new culture can develop from the mixing of people from different backgrounds.It explores the idea that even
two people who were born and brought up together can belong to different cultures due to their different stations
in life. The paper shows that the siblings who have travelled elsewhere tend to develop a different and positive
culture from those who never leave home.It is about the people at the grassroots who make majority of the
Kenyan population, and who make this nation and can also break it in a few hours or days. The data was collected
from face to face interviews and observing people from two groups of ten respondents each in Ruiru and
Ting’ang’a in Kiambu County and some of their siblings who leave away from Kiambu.The study used a control
group of four siblings ( who live away from Kiambu and travel to other parts of Kenya and abroad) of four of
the respondents. Both random and purposive sampling were used to get the respondents.The discussion
concludes that culture, just like its medium, language, can be dynamic and that culture starts at personal level
and then permeates to groups of people and the community. The paper also concludes that whatever development
we achieve as Kenyans can be lost in a few days if we lack a culture of appreciating each other as Kenyans and
communicating the same.That a negative culture can be detrimental to the development of a nation and actually
cause its downfall.
Key words: communication, culture, development, language, inclusiveness. | en_US |
