Does Culture Daily Evolve Towards Its Dilution
Does CULTURE DAILY EVOLVE TOWARDS its DILUTION (of sorts)?
Growing up in yesteryears in Kenya, you had, perhaps, been taught, of course also depending where you grew up and the kind of family values that guided you, that it is rude or rather insensitive to feed in the presence of visitors and even strangers especially if you are not going to also feed the visitors and strangers simultaneously as you feed.. …
Luckily, food seemed plenty then and in our culture we had been taught that a visitor (whether a known, familiar person or a stranger) is like a ‘river’ that comes to your home and soon goes away (the proverb literally reads ‘a visitor is a river’). We had been taught that a visitor is in our homes just for a moment and then goes away so that visitor ought to be welcome and be treated well!.
So we joyously fed visitors as much as we were also joyfully fed when we visited our friends.
At times, the gluttonous among us would take advantage of such wonderful hospitality by feeding very fast at our own homes and then immediately visiting our neighbors in order to catch them just in their meal moments where we were also sure to get food.
Away from such caring attitude and behavior, visitors to some homes are nowadays hardly, really welcome especially if they overstay and literally interfere with meals /snacks times…or if, as destiny dictates they arrive in such homes just as feeding starts!! Or if they arrive suddenly and unannounced!
.. It won’t surprise such a visitor if, come feeding hours, the entire family retreats to the kitchens and other feeding areas or even bedrooms leaving the visitor all alone and somehow desolate especially if the TV or radio is off or unavailable and the visited station is all eerily silent 
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The same reality can also happens in work stations….
Perhaps you have also visited a work station to do some work, or duties that can only be performed in such a station and for many hours.
This reality hits home come feeding times and food vendors arrive and starts speedily serving all the people in such stations with pre-ordered meals.
You realize, suddenly, that you are the only person not served with a meal and this appears totally normal in the modern fast times.
Then you realize that your presence right then may not be very welcome as you could be stopping the feeding moments and as you ponder the sudden moment, some of the station occupants unravel the packed aromatic contents and start feeding a few meters away….
To save yourself and the situation, your IQ advises you to excuse yourself to take a break. You then decide to walk out of the station to take a well deserved breather even when that particular environ may be rather strange to you seeing that you may not have visited the neighborhood before…
Without anyone to guide you, you may struggle to find a space where you could also get yourself a snack or drink at a reasonable cost or even a rest room for self relief ….
But such is life.. As happens often, you realize that this life is not always easy (life is not a straight line as is often said) and the reality hit you and remains that life has to move on no matter what even in strange setting and environment.
After some reasonable time you decide to return to the work station and find things back to normal and you continue with your tasks. …
In reflection, you realize that times have drastically changed. Work has to be done fast and efficiently and effectively in limited hours in various work stations forcing people to feed (for continuing strength & stamina) as they sit in such stations as this saves moments /hours that would normally serve as lunch breaks….… That work stations have also unwittingly been transformed into momentary fast- feeding stations and where visitors and even working visitors have to take care of themselves especially seeing that the customers flow is quite fast.
This reality makes lots of sense and you realize that culture everywhere remains dynamic and adaptable to evolving times.
This reality then portrays life as quite interesting and still worth being probed and interrogated and always providing chances for mindfulness and alertness 
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……Stubborn, foolish OR utterly irresponsible; uncaring:..
You meet one of the post – teenage girls walking the streets of Nairobi and she calls out “uncle nibaiye food”… You slow down as she follows you persistently making her request.
You explain your situation and tell her you do not have cash on you. In your mind you know you have only 200.00 bob to take you home and meet some other domestic costs…
She stubbornly says, “mimi sitaki pesa.. Nibaiye unga nipeleke Mtoto,” (i don’t need cash… Just buy for me maize flour to take home to my child)… then when you explain that you still don’t have cash on you… She goes further to suggest that you take her to the supermarket and buy some milk and a loaf of bread…..She is still following and engaging you and it’s almost 10 pm.
You further explain that you don’t have cash..
As a means appearing courteous, you offer to support her another time to which she responds, “hata usinisaidie hiyo siku ingine,” (“even next time don’t assist me.” 
) and she stops following you.
) and she stops following you.Of which generation is this kind of person? You keep reflecting as you ponder her rude retort;
You somehow regret the fact that you had slowed down just to listen to what she was telling you and then just realize how utterly insensitive people everywhere can become
