From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Tue Feb 23 09:12:27 1999 X-Digest-Num: 72 Message-ID: <44114.72.423.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:12:27 +0200 From: Robin Turner >Ya, it's paradoxical here, again. Once Lojban has its own culture, it > >shall never be culturally neutral. > > Why is this necessarily so? Could not the Lojban culture embrace all world > cultures as equals? If the culture itself favors no culture including > itself, it remains neutral. So perhaps it's a meta-culture? I went to a seminar once about "small cultures" - the idea was that we tend to see cultures in monolithic national/ethnic terms, but in practice any group of people with common experience form a culture, and these "small cultures" are often of more practical importance. The example the speaker (Adrian 'Doc' Holiday) gave was that English teachers abroad tend to spend too much time thinking of their students in terms of the students' national (or even continental) culture, while ignoring the fact that there is also, for example "student culture", whic is often more pertinent to the situation. "Lojbanistan" is also a "small culture". co'o mi'e robin.