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Originally Posted by Anthony Butcher
Define British culture to me, and how it differs from American, Irish and French culture and then we can talk about it.
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Define Chinese culture to me, and how it differs from – say -Vietnamese
culture - and then we can
all talk about it.
…Unless you’re saying the Chinese don’t have a real culture; after all, “The traditions, religion and customs of the upper class [bore] no resemblance to those of the working class” in pre-revolution China. There were and are very great regional differences in such things as custom, diet, and the spoken language, too. Also, “The Internet generation is a completely different way of life to the non-Internet generation.... and so on.”
It seems to me Mr.Butcher is suffering a brain storm, and has deftly guided himself up an intellectual cul-de-sac.