KS> 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.....)
I guess the DC is close to being *white american* culture, but I don't
think all whites belong there.  And many non-whites do. But it's
backbone is European immigrants and their descendents.  As a matter of
fact, its backbone is probably western European immigrants and their
descendents.
KS> 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?
The DC is what most of the people in this country tend to believe.  It
is the culture of the *average Joe* American.
KS> 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.  :)
It's never too early to ask questions, as long as the questions are
sincere.
KS> I don't understand what you mean by "a different concept of history".
I do not believe that God ordained the white Americans to steal all the
land from the Indians from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast, for
example.  The correct term for that, by the way, is "manifest destiny",
and it is taught in many history books.  I don't think of Custer as a
hero.  I know that most Indians lived on farms and in towns when the
white man came over, and were not nomadic.  I know there were Indians
who were not only literate; they had libraries that rivaled the
libraries of Europe.  The Spaniards took great pride in burning those
libraries to the ground.
Many kids in the DC are taught about manifest destiny, that Indians
were nomadic, and that we were all pre-literate.
                       Sondra
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