----- Original Message -----From: BrendanSent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:59 PMSubject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: cultural boundariesFrancisco,
I don't know if you have ever travelled to the United States, but I'd have to say that the USA is far from uniform. Granted, most people speak English so we do not have the popular variety of languages spoken throughout as Europe does. But if you want to talk cultures, much like the map posted earlier, the U.S. is full of different cultures! If you take my home in Pittsburgh and compare and contrast it with a small town in Nebraska; Berkeley, California; Miami; Chinatown in San Francisco and a Navajo settlement in Arizona you're going to see cultural differences just as varied as Europe. Different cultures, heritage, vocabulary, speed, priorities, etc.
The USA may be a melting pot, but it's FAR from homogeneous.
I've heard it said that it is a salad bowl, not a melting pot.
At 04:44 PM 2/28/03, you wrote:
"jparsell" <jparsell@n...> wrote:
> The cultural tri-points ought to be interesting spots.
Yes, indeed. But a cultural tri-point (or a cultural boundary) is
rarely a point (or a line). It is, most often than not, a transition
area, neither A nor B nor C. Or at least there are several features
from every side at the same time.
Perhaps Switzerland is a good European example of a tri-cultural
area: German, French and Italian (or four if we add the very small
minority of the Rumantsche). The three cultures meet in Switzerland,
there are cantons of a well defined culture/language, but there are
also cantons were they mix, and the whole Switzerland itself is a
big mixture of those three cultures.
This is just a case. Europe has lots of them. Maybe it's good to
remember our non-European friends that Europe is continent with many
very different cultures and countries. It is not an almost uniform
entity like the USA.
Francisco,
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