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To: elmatador who wrote (67593)	10/27/2010 4:48:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220127

No they don't ElM. <Most changes in original culture occur when western corporations impose their products on other economies,> Cultural changes happen because individuals like those cultures. Monkey see, monkey do. My culture has shifted quite a lot from my childhood culture as I have seen many other options and thought up quite a few for myself. I dumped the cultural concepts I once had and have adopted new ones. Sometimes cultural shifts happen because of tectonic geopolitical earthquakes such as atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulting in unconditional surrender and subsequent adoption of Deeming's quality control ideas, baseball and all sorts. That surrender and cultural shift bounced back onto me and my family because Japan changed and that made me think it an excellent idea for Tarken-san to become part Japanese [as did Tarken-san]. Now I eat sushi and have had considerable association with Japan which likely would not have been the case if there had not been that tectonic interaction. But those cultural shifts were optional all the same. Our Japanese "son" didn't have to take up baseball and we didn't have to adopt Japanese. They became good options in the smorgasbord of life. Americanisms such as Halloween and other cultural norms, such as Big Macs, cyberphones and a huge array of cultural options are optionally adopted and normally are because they have attractions to so many people here and around the world. Maoris used to live barbaric subsistence cannibalistic tribal lives. They didn't need to see the alternatives for long before they were keen to ditch the old way of life. Eating other people and being eaten is not as much fun [normally] as the modern Maori lifestyle. Shivering in a pa on a mountain during wet, windy, July was not fun, even with a full feather cloak. Especially if the neighbouring raiding tribe had the numbers and managed to get inside. Living shirtless in a gutter with parasites eating your eyes is no fun for anyone, even if they do speak their own local dialects and prance around a campfire to tom toms. Cerfing cyberspace and ranting to a Kiwi from Angola is where it's at. Swishing around the sky in that private jet aircraft you showed us is pretty good too. Laying fibre for cash is productive and fun. Chasing and eating a parasite infested antelope for a living is not so good, especially when lions are after the same animal and might mistake you for dinner. Mqurice