Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA00271 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:10:19 GMT X-Originating-IP: [194.117.133.84] User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:01:49 +0000 Subject: Re: mind From: Steve Drew <srdrew_1@hotmail.com> To: Jom-emit <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B8A06688.207%srdrew_1@hotmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2002 23:04:02.0982 (UTC) FILETIME=[B7963460:01C1BE50] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:07:48 -0500
> From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: mind
>
> On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 02:05 , Steve Drew wrote:
>
>> But from the point of
>> view of the group nothing different has occurred.
>
> Ah, but from the point of view of the group something _has_ occurred-
> someone has joined them.
>
> But I only wish the whole were so simple.
>
> How, why, when....
>
> I was taught, by my anglophile father, to eat in what is known to
> usanians as the european manner- keeping the fork in the left hand to
> transfer the cut food to the mouth. My mother ate in the 'american'
> fashion. At the time, it was economy of motion that swayed me, not
> anything to do with manners or propriety, and today, I don't know if
> such mannerisms are even taught at all. I do know that both my daughters
> have adopted the 'european' manner, although I never had an
> instructional session of any type with them.
>
> When I had a galfriend from another continent, she remarked at how I did
> not eat like an american, and wondered if I'd been raised outside the
> country. I told her my story.
>
> And then there are chopsticks....
>
> - - Wade
I suppose, though i was really referring to their behaviours and the
perspective of the group. As i noted earlier, the performers intentions are
irrelevant to the observer.
I eat both ways. Pork steak UK version. Stir fry US version. Pass on the
chopsticks.
Steve
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