Re: CHAT: American Culture (was Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties)

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> That's an interesting question.  The answers is, I think:  there is no one
> American culture, and there never has been.
Yes and no.  What is a matter of culture and what is a matter of individual
(or family) preference is itself a matter of culture.  The "Are you an X?"
pages at http://www.zompist.com/amercult.html isn't just nonsense, after
all.

>  New York City (former
> New Amsterdam), to cite just one example, kept its archives in both Dutch
> and English until 1825 IIRC, and there are still members of the Dutch Reformed
> Church in that city.
Many of whom, to my personal knowledge, are persons of color!

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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