KS> SB> Dominant Culture.  You're going to see that abbreviation a lot in
 > SB> here. The Dominant Culture of the U.S. and Canada is often very
 > SB> different from Indian cultures.
 
 SB> I, too, hold individuals to be accountable for their individual
 SB> actions. 
 
 Thought you might.  
 KS> How do the folks in Indian Affairs define the DC of the United States?
 SB> I think, however, that I can give you only a few examples.  Culture is
 SB> always a very pervasive thing.  
 
 Pervasive within a very limited scope.  The edges blur, but the core
 is always different from another culture. 
 SB> Anthropologists write volumes on a
 SB> single culture.  The DC has a different sense of humor than many of
 SB> the native cultures, for example.  And I'm not even going to try to
 SB> define that difference, but it's real.  
 
 I just hope I learn to "get" it.  Not enough laughter in the world.  
 Is the d.c. an amalgam of individuals of many different tribes?  And
 is it ok for a non n.a. to say "tribes"?  (I really *have* lived a
 sheltered and uneducated life.  Sigh.....)
 
 
 SB> As a matter of fact, humor was
 SB> one of the areas I had real problems with when I was adjusting to the
 SB> dominant culture.  I kept asking myself, "Why do they find *this*
 SB> funny, and not *that*?"   
 
 Oh, oh.  Might be a lot more difficult than I thought, then, if *you* 
 had that much trouble.
 
 SB> Eventually, I caught on, but it took a while.
 SB> Even so, I haven't yet verbalized the difference.
 So... what I got from this is that I'll have
 to figure out for myself what the d.c. is.  :)  Perhaps, then, a part
 of what the d.c. is, is that it is more "new" fashioned and non-
 traditionalist?  Perhaps by one definition it has been "washed down", 
 and, by another definition it might be considered "forward thinking", 
 with each side believing they are correct?  
 If it's too early for me to even be asking these questions, let me 
 know and I'll try to figure it out by listening.  :)
 SB> I grew up with a good deal more respect for elders than I see in the
 SB> dominant culture.  I also grew up with a different concept of history
 SB> than is taught in school.
 I don't understand what you mean by "a different concept of history".
 SB> I think you will need to read carefully, sometimes even between the
 SB> lines, to figure out completely what is meant by DC.  
 
 OK.  But I wouldn't mind a hint here and there!
 SB> You have an
 SB> advantage over many non-natives reading this, however.  You have
 SB> switched cultures in your lifetime, so you are probably more aware of
 SB> cultural differences than many people.  And, therefore, more able to
 SB> *see* a cultural tagline when it exists.
 SB> þ SLMR 2.1a þ May the wolves run at your side and not at your heels.
 You're incorrigible!!!
 
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