You've probably guessed that the Experience My Culture team are passionate about how we see the 'new' culture emerging from multi-culturalism, and how we think that much of the work done around forcing a multi-culturalist view on people, whilst well meaning, doesn't work.

People are far more sophisticated than that aren't they? Well, we are each unique aren't we - and each of us has our own take on the broader cultural themes that run through society. How many times have you shouted at the TV, when someone has been representing a cultural view on your behalf, "Don't presume to speak for me - I don't think like that!" (To be swifty followed up by your significant other pointing out that the people on the telly can't actually hear you shouting).

Similarly the other meaning of the word culture - art, literature, food and music - is equally as frustratingly boxed off by people telling us how we should like our art. When in reality, culture in this context  is - or should be - simply an expression of culture in the other context.

I came across Tanya Raabe the other week when she painted in public at Tate Modern, I Tweeted her blog post about the experience because I loved her take on painting, art, her own personal culture and the relationship between the painter and the person being painted.

Have a look at her blog and the pictures on Flickr of her work, you'll see what I mean.