Because it results from political action motivated by the desire of the populations to feel in a more tangible way the development of the Territory at the local level, the scientific division of the interior of a Territory is a cultural indicator of demarcation with a view to better promote Territorial development at the local level through better promotion of the cultures of a national geographical space divided into several identity and identifiable islands.
Each Terroir has a scope of operation which certainly places it on the same level as the others but in which it is called upon to promote its differences and put them at the service of the Territory not only by attracting local but also international visitors because a development project however small it may be, if it is well thought out it benefits the Territory even more than the terroir.
To know others is to know their culture
The seriousness that local populations give to their land by implementing projects that contribute to the promotion of local cultures always allows others to better understand or know better what we sometimes only know by name and often on the basis of inherited prejudices without however grasping the depth or the spirit which resides in the construction of a cultural work or the sustainability of an ancestral practice in a context where modernization invites a constant updating or reappropriation of each culture while paying attention to do not empty them of their substance.
There are so many prejudices that revolve around other people's cultures to the point where distrust sometimes takes worrying turns. These prejudices sometimes lead us to making caricatures which certainly correspond to the reality but which have nothing to do with the merits of a culture or at least of an ancestral practice perhaps also because certain natives, through scandalous practices, give a bad image to one or more cultures already under fire from criticism of all kinds.
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But even if the past defines a present sometimes victims of bad interpretations and other practices totally out of phase with the idea of a culture at the service of Men and the entire Territory, the present must continually be updated to help give a better image to each culture so as not to leave people and in particular young or future generations adopt the negative aspects of a past that no longer correspond or do not correspond to the values recommended not only at the regional level but also in society.
The extraterritorial character of a local culture
Because it is linked to the history of ancestral civilizations, the culture of people must be further popularized through educational teachings allowing others to better know their fellow human beings, but also a cultural link that goes beyond the limits of the local area. The Bantu of Cameroon for example do not only have brothers in Cameroon. There are some in Central and Southern Africa. The migrations that have taken place over the centuries have not broken cultural ties.
If we are what we are based on what identifies us locally, we are also what others are because we have elements of our cultures that are similar. We are therefore not African only because we come from the same continent, but also because we have blood ties that migrations have consolidated, thus widening the limits of a land which is no longer limited to one Nation but to several others with similar linguistic and customary practices. Likewise, we are not Cameroonian just because we come from the same Territory, but because at a given moment in our history, some of us had to migrate to regroup in other parts of the same Territory to signify that every Cameroonian should feel at home everywhere, and even seek positions of political responsibility in circumscriptions from which he is not “from” by birth but to which he belongs by essence.
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