British Humour

After having thought for some time about the topic that I have to post, I finally chose one of my favourite topics: humour.

Humour is a very important cultural aspect of any nation and reflects a lot of its way of thinking and how they conceives themselves as well as what they think about the other. “Humor can be a form of self-assertion and of defense; it can also be a particularly effective weapon to ridicule others.”[1]

By the choosing of the three videos that I post in the blog, I want to show a little bit of what British humour is.

As you can notice, British humour is based in some particular aspects as nonsense, black humour, sarcasm, irony, satire and self-deprecation, that make it effective and hilarious. 

By the way, I consider humour to be a wonderful way to know more about the culture and the people of any place and of its language, in this case about Britons, but a point to consider is that it can be very difficult to understand because the cultural and language differences that exist.

Here are the three videos that I chose, I hope you enjoy it!

“A Bit of Fry and Laurie” is a comedy television program starring by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who is better known for his perfomance as Dr. House in the American Medical drama Dr. House MD.

Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian whose work has been very well taken and been awarded many times.

Rowan Atkinson is an English comedian who is very famous for his character Mr. Bean.

 

 

Just to finished, I want to say that I love British comedy and I do consider it a perfect way to know  Great Britain´s culture.

  

 Norma García Morales.

1. Rosenthal, Angela y David Bindman. “No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity.” Fannie and Alan Leslie: Center of the Humanities. 2007. Dartmouth College. 25 de octubre de 2008. 

Our Second Post:Thinking Outside the Box.

"Advances are made by answering questions.
Discoveries are made by questioning answers."
Bernard Haisch.

Sometimes when we think in a scientist, we tought that they don't believe in God. Sometimes this perception is true, principaly, because religions have been used to justify crimes against humanity: the Inquisition of centuries past or the sectarian slaughter in the Mideast today. But the human misuse of religions and the existence of God are very different matters.
With this idea in mind, nowadays, a new generation of scientists have accepted the existence of an inteligence that is behind everything, God. They started doing one simple question:
Is there an intelligence behind the origin of the Universe?

The next video introduce us to the ideas of these new kind of scientists. It was taken from the presentation of the book "The God Theory" written by Bernard Haisch. In this video he proposes the alternative that the special properties of our universe reflect an underlying intelligence. However exceptional human experiences and accounts of mystics throughout the ages do suggest that we live in a purposeful universe.



The assumptions that Dr. Hairsch made in the last video are according with the new theory in what the theoretical physics are working nowadays: The String Theory. String theory proclaims, for instance, that the observed particle properties, that is, the different masses and other properties of both: the fundamental particles and the force particles associated with the four forces of nature (the strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetism, and gravity) are a reflection of the various ways in which a string can vibrate. To understand about the string theory and how it is related with the proof of the existence of God and the existence of other dimensions, I invite you to see the next video, enjoy it!!.



As I said before, these are new ways of thinking in scientist world. I'm included. I would like to finish with a quote from Albert Einstein, it reflects what I have been trying to say in this post.
"At any race, I'm convived that God doesn't play dice."