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Re: Cultural values
[Re: tsuwm]
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01/03/13 06:36 PM
01/03/13 06:36 PM
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jenny jenny
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Sure thing, tsuwm, and the output of all of our endeavors has a singular function.
My bold font definition of Culture wasn't pomp. It was meant to delimit the term in a manner suitable for an informative discussion. As it were I failed to get purchase.
Hey, wait! I got another good idea! Be back in a minute...
Drat, I can't pull up the particulars so I'll just wing it:
(Continued on next box.)
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Re: Cultural values
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01/03/13 08:48 PM
01/03/13 08:48 PM
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Buffalo Shrdlu
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Re: Cultural values
[Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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01/03/13 10:47 PM
01/03/13 10:47 PM
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jenny jenny
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In September a visiting professor at the University of Alabama anthropology department gave a talk on his digs in the Great Rift Valley in Africa with the immodest objective of assigning the few footprints and even fewer bones found there to the group Homo sapiens. A bold assertion in that the volcanic ash matrix they were in dated 1.3 million years BP.
But were they really our direct line ancestors? Much taller than the famous Lucy, and with brains almost as big as our own, a clincher was found in the physical evidence which showed that they had a Culture.
In the form of crude knives.
Sorry: Continued on next rock because this damn page won't scroll down so I can see exactly what I am saying.
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Re: Cultural values
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01/04/13 05:27 AM
01/04/13 05:27 AM
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Jackie
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I would say culture is all that which is not nature. This is wonderful! And accurate, I think. Having taken several Sociology courses, my thinking turns to that def. first. There are so many different levels! (She said, going in the opposite direction from Branny's succinct generalization.) There is "British culture" and "American culture", for example. But wait! Is there really? Do all Britons have the same culture? No! (And, did I get you to think that I was going to leave that sweeping statement as a perfect target?  ) Everywhere, I think, there are sweeping likenesses (gender, religion, skin color, rural, urban, etc.) And also less-wide ones (education level, single parent households, homes with a person who requires constant care). But we can narrow cultures down, too: people who play clarinet, people who read King Lear  . Every one in these (and other) cultural groups has at least something in common with the others in that group. But can we take culture, like language, as specific to an individual? Not an idiolect but an idioculture?
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