-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> That's a good thing to know, however.  It's amazing how many people
 SB> I've met who have read an article or two, now know more about my
 SB> culture than I do.
 
 They probably can't even explain theirs.
 
 SB> the world.  I'm one of those people with an insatible curiosity.  I
 SB> want to know everything there is to know, and I want to know it all
 SB> right now.
 
 For me reality sunk in and I am pretty sure I can't know everything so I
 gave up trying. 
 
 SB> I expect that's true of everyone.  We adapt our culture to meet our
 SB> own individual needs and personalities.  And each generation adapts the
 SB> culture for the needs of its own time; which is why cultures are never
 SB> static.
 
 True.
 
 JC> That might be a good example of some of my "rejection". My "ancestors" 
(or
 > my "culture") have an outlook on life (and death) that I totally reject.
 SB> But did you come to your *different* conclusion through wrestling with
 SB> your own culture, or through playing with other cultures?
 Well, I guess we would have to decide what "my" culture _is_. Certainly not
 the "consumer" culture of today's America from the "economic" sense. I am
 not out to impress anyone by my material goods. (But then none of my family
 is that way.)
 From the "belief" sense, my "ancestors" were all good Protestant Christians
 and for the most part Baptist (not Southern Baptist). I rejected those
 beliefs as a teenager and never looked back. My recent studies have only
 strengthened my position on that front. As for "socially", all my ancestors
 until you get _way back_ were all "Northern Yankees" (also for a "political"
 perspective.) (And as far as I have been able to find, the farthest south is
 Tennessee.)
 The only exposure I have had to other "cultures" is through my studies and
 what I read and observe from the sidelines. I am not a participant.
 Jim
--- Blue Wave v2.12
---------------