Re: [lojban] cultural rafsi fu'ivla

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

From: Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, marios cmavirn wrote:

> >Being married to a Cuban, and having spent considerable time in the
> >Caribbean, I am unsure that there is a Caribbean culture. Cuba has a


> Thank you for your reactions. With due respect, I must however disagree. For 
> someone living in the Caribbean and of Caribbean origin, the existence of a 
> Caribbean culture surpassing linguistic and former colonial boundaries is 
> just as real as European culture would be for Europeans, with their 
> differences between germanic, slavic and romanic Europe. Punto. I was 


Unresolvable disputes like this is why I have always felt that cultures
should be represented by fu'ivla only, with the suffix provided by members
of that culture or language. Not gismu. And such cultural fu'ivla can be
used to describe subcultures and worldviews as well as clearly defined
ethnic groups.



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