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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: Jabbering !
> Thanks for this.
>
> I have avoided the notion of choice as a key element of culture, simply
> because there are all those problems of conscious/unconscious behaviours,
> but I think you're right to point that out as a potential part of it.
>
> Quite often cultural behaviours maintain themselves without most of the
> people engaged in them necessarily knowing the purposes of those
behaviours.
> A pretty obvious one that occurs to me is the tie. Of course, some people
> will know where such behaviours came from, what they're for etc., but most
> people don't or won't, but it doesn't stop the culture of tie wearing from
> persisting.
<< Culture !? I think its more etiquette, an (aesthetic) aspect of
civilation.
A form of indicating class, indicating personality_a form/ a buildingblock
for his/ hers identity. >>
Regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are)
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