Bill Jones wrote:First of all, there's no "blood" in culture. Culture means the collection of handed-down ways of doing things.
I like the idea of thinking of "Appalachian" as a "native" culture.
Even if the people of Appalachia are mostly of European ancestry genetically, the _culture_ was "born" here, as surely as any other.
I'm not so sure you can say "mostly". While that is what is portrayed
in movies, I'm not sure that is true in real life. There is a LOT of
Native American and African blood in Appalachian culture.
I hate to say it, but I find the people here to be bone ignorant,<>
even about the things you might expect somebody to know about. The
only people I've met who know what fava beans are either work at the
feed store, or are from California, Germany, etc.
Why is someone ignorant because they don't know what fava beans are?
........does that make us ignorant? There is a big difference, IMO,
between an inherent bias (of which we are all guilty) and ignorance..
Sorry, I've never found it to be otherwise. I regret that you cling to the illusion that minds instructed only by television (the vast majority of people you meet in suburbia, or virtually anywhere, I suppose, these days) are just as clear as those that access other forms of information abundantly. You're perfectly entitled to a different outlook.But if you go to an average neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY or El Cajon,
CA, the typical person there is also ignorant, indolent, biased, and
bigotted, in addition to uncultured, unrefined, and unenlightened.
I can't believe, Bill, that you said that. Those are strong, offensive,
words.
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