Angel
On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Rolfe Windward wrote:
> Angel and Ana's posts bring up an item that may (or may not) need to be
> placed in Angel's "list" and that is what appears to be the increased rate
> of "interculturation" (Lemke?) or cultural hybridization. I haven't
> researched this explicitly so I can't say how robust the notion is or,
> assuming it to be real, whether it is a sign of hope or despair, but it
> seems to me that global changes and increasingly peripatetic populations
> have also dramatically expanded the interface(s) between cultural groups; to
> the point where many are no longer distinct (assuming there was ever a time
> that they really were).
>
> In my own research, most of my subjects could only be "assigned" to a
> cultural category under the grossest of definitions and many express values
> that seem more consistent with mass or "pop" culture than any other "type."
> Despite the horrible consequences of exacerbated social identity (e.g., the
> former Yugoslavia) there seems to be something else, vital and adaptive,
> going on; for good or ill, I agree our theories probably need to catch up.
>
>
> Rolfe Windward
> UCLA GSE&IS
> ibalwin who-is-at mvs.oac.ucla.edu
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