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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (74636)	2/19/2000 1:04:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

I think it's easier to be opinionated when you don't know the facts. The more facts you know, the harder it gets to synthesize into a grand unified theory, which makes one humble. If all you've ever studied is western civilization, then how will you know that there are cultures and civilizations that are radically different? And compounding the problem is the babyfood that passes for high school education, where most people learn the little bit they know about other cultures. And then they don't really move out of their milieu, so it's easy to suppose that everyone is like the people you meet every day, because for you, they are. There is a genre in literature depicting the shock and alienation of someone like that when they are immersed in an alien culture and confronted with how different it actually is, e.g., Paul Bowles "The Sheltering Sky," pretty much everything by B. Traven. I'd say that Steven, who actually lives in another culture than the one he was born in, does a good job of explaining.