Monday, August 4, 2008

What is culture(?): from biggie to small - there's one for all.

You got a little, we all got a little. How you cook your rice. How you braid your hair. How you call your grandparents an indigenous name, passed on generation...after generation. Little Squat. Parakeet Princess. Walk tall little one. So you're sitting there, wondering why you put your fork 'where the fork goes'. It's not as complicated as flower arrangements or candelabra placement in a church, but it's something cultural. What do you really consider culture? The urban legends tell tales of ink-blotted insignia running arm's-length down the fulcrum of some kid's weapon arm. Is that splurt just as worthy of a sub note in Britannica as the Don of an Italian piazza. Of course, the eskimos are chillin' in the North, the Incas WERE livin' mountainside, some dude is trying to get easy with an Egyptian expatriate, with Oompa Loopas making chocolate in the midwest, as Communism still happens. Culture, frame of reference? Culture, fact or fascination?

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