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Karen[_3_] Karen[_3_] is offline
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Default Why do we still use chopsticks?

On Apr 19, 4:25 pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> Karen,
>
> Races is a terrible choice of words.
>
> Cultures shouldn't change and rather be preserved.
>
> Assimilation into other societies has been best exhibited by the Aborgines
> forced into the Australian culture.
>
> The internet for the past 20 years has, in part, thanks to the rapid
> communication channels such as usnet, forced many cultures to debate and
> failing that, change due to "popular opinion." This is the worst side-
> effect of the Internet on mankind.
>
> Not in my humble opnion.


But races are blending, aren't they? Cultures are changing. Isn't the
world, not just "America," one big melting pot?

What is authentic? Nothing or everything?

Maybe it's only terrible if one can't embrace it.

Karen