[Xmca-l] Re: anachronism

[Greg Thompson]

I'm stumped. Can't think of a *single* word.
There are phrases like culturally tone-deaf or culturally insensitive but
they are not quite on point.
-greg



On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 6:31 PM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:

> All these opposites, Annalisa, are opposites of "culture" in the sense of
> liking opera or reading a book instead of watching TV, referring to a
> hierarchy *within* a culture. As Greg alerted us to, "culture" is a very
> polysemous word. The ana-culturalism I am looking for refers to "culture"
> which is *different* rather than *more or less*. Like offering a tip to
> the waitress in the local greasy spoon in London, or a boss sacking a
> worker on the spot in an Australian company.
>
>
> Andy
> ------------------------------
> Andy Blunden
> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
> On 17/09/2018 8:26 AM, Annalisa Aguilar wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
>
> It's always great to discover the hole in a language, which I would call
> the realization of not having a word for something meaningful.
>
>
> I looked up "aculture" and the dictionary found "acculture" which is
> actually to bring someone up to speed in their knowledge of a culture, but
> I don't think that is what you are looking for.
>
>
> I found these words when I looked up "what is the opposite of culture":
>
>
> ignorance
> inability
> inexperience
> uncouthness
> bad manners
> clumsiness
> coarseness
> crudeness
> harm
> hurt
> impoliteness
> incompetence
> inelegance
> ineptness
> roughness
> rudeness
> tactlessness
>
> Even though I know that you are not talking about opposites but outside
> of, what I noticed about this list is the emotionality I associate to many
> of the words, except maybe for "ignorance," which seems neutral and
> descriptive, though no one likes to be called ignorant, and that word is
> best used as a self-descriptor if I'm willing to call myself that.
>
>
> There is also "clueless" but that is also pejorative.
>
>
> Maybe "unsophisticated"?
>
>
> These words below came up when I looked for synonyms for "clueless" and
> also have a pejorative color:
>
>
> brainless
> childlike
> clueless
> crude
> dumb
> feeble-minded
> idiotic
> ignorant
> moronic
> naive
> slow
> stupid
> uncomplicated
> unschooled
> unstudied
> untutored
> unworldly
>
> "Unworldly" might be OK.
>
> All in all? great observation.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Annalisa
>
>
>
>
>

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