The Yin and Yang of Crossing Cultures
A creative way to represent the yin-yang symbol
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Embracing Different Cultures
Often the first taste of another culture is through its food or music or fashion, something like “hello.” But people who find a way of crossing cultures—stepping inside the culture’s traditions, language, history, attitudes, and beliefs—are forever changed by the experience.
In the Taoist yin-yang symbol:
The outer circle represents the “everything,” an indivisible whole.
The black-and-white shapes inside show two opposite but interdependent energies that are constantly transforming each other, much like a kaleidoscope.
Night and day or birth and death are examples. They are opposite but interconnected; one cannot exist without the other.
In much the same way, two cultures can seem to be opposites and yet make up the indivisible whole...
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