tsatske
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Joined: 3/9/2007 From: Louisville, KY Status: offline
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touchy issue. This is American, a land whose greatest streaghnth is the Borg way we assimulate every culture that comes our way. I don't want to make anyone feel 'raped' of culture, so it is important to try not to stomp on what is sacred to each. But i do want to take advantage of what is good and learn from every culture. I really think the thing at issue here, though, is not so much the using what is sacred as if it were maundane - it is more taking up one or two things you like from a culture, rather piecemeal, but then refusing to acknowlege that that is all you did - learn a little from a wise people. Instead, with one or two borrowed facets of a culture, to go around trumpeting great cultural knowledge and 'dising' other people - both those not so 'in the know' as you, and those actually OF the culture you are borrowing from. This is like - well, like my crazy ass vocabulary. I must know a half a dozen words each in maybe 30 or even 50 differant languages. I love the richness this lends my vocabulary, esp since most of them are words with wonderful shades of meaning that we don't have in English. But if I were to start correcting the speach patterns of a native French speaker becuase, French being one of my better languages, i can actually form a half a dozen whole sentences in it - how stupid would that make me look?
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