Aynit D. Troof
Actually I doubt that any culture is "unique", or for that matter, stable enough to be capable of an uncontroversial 50 word entry in an encyclopaedia. Certainly, the Americans don't have one either. That doesn't mean "there is no culture". It's everywhere -- it suffuses everything. Putting your finger on it is another matter.
Only the last is really getting close.
Nonsense. I am Australian. But even if I weren't, it would be an opinion about culture, not racism, even allowing a broad definition of racism. The essence of racism is animus towards an identifiable ethnic or cultural community and I have no animus to any community. My comments about Australian culture apply to the bulk of humanity -- though for all I know there might well be some isolated group of people in some rainforest in Brazil whose culture really is utterly stable and self-contained and identifiable.
I think that atbreastude to women is fairly general in modern industrial societies these days. Of course, women continue to be on the wrong side of the ledger in areas like domestic violence, loveual buttault, wealth etc, so in practice, what the culture is, is not so clear.
So?
Which does tend to expose the difference between what people *imagine* the culture is, and how it works in practice.
So it's derivative then? And where did the British get this from?
No, I believe not. The mores of the middle ages and earlier are out of step with the demands of the present. A generation from now, the head scarf will be an oddity in Australia. Many muslims don't wear it even now. The majority of the muslim girls where I teach don't. They will be parents one day.
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But they do it because it's considered necessary to good commercial practice. Raising of animals commercially almost demands it. Sure you can have a free range hobby farm, but try individual management on a herd of 2000 cattle or sheep.
And yet there are still those live sheep exports.
Fran
