Re: Promoting Lojban [was Re: Loglan still alive?]

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

la lojbab. cusku di'e

> >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.