Re: [lojban] Re: Auditions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 05 August 2010 13:19:41 Lindar wrote:
> > As for the culture of Pakistan/India is concerned, here's what i have.
> >
> > People here are very focused on families. They considers families, big
> > families, as a blessing. Mostly there are atleast three generations
> > living together under one roof.
>
> This sounds absolutely horrifying by western standards, and this is
> one of the many culture-clashes that I've noticed in trying to piece
> together our culture-puzzle. In most 'western' cultures, independence
> is strongly emphasised. Some people will be 'family people' and spend
> a lot of time visiting relatives/parents, and some will not, but it's
> very strongly emphasised that children should leave home as soon as
> possible.
>
> > The kids usually live with their parents almost all there life.
>
> Again, this sounds horrifying by my cultural standards. I love my
> mother, but I'd sooner strangle her to death than live with her my
> entire life, and I know for a fact she feels the same way.

This is important for me to know, as I'm going to lay out the suburbs soon. 
I've drawn the major roads and canals. I was thinking of dividing the suburbs 
into irregular polygons about 500 dunams, with canals bordering each one, and 
subdividing each of those into lots of a dunam each; but that wouldn't work 
for people with large families under one roof. (A dunam, or stremma, is 1000 
m², except in Iraq where it's 2500 m². I'm using the international dunam.)

I wouldn't mind living next door to my mother, but with her I would. She's a 
neat freak and I leave stuff around. I did live for about a year in my 
great-aunt's basement.

Pierre
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