Re: Re : Re: Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
The marriage of language and the nationstate in the nineteenth century, at the exclusion of most other cultural identities, has diminshed the prominence of many of these underlying cultural belts, or clusters. But they are still intact.
Without a doubt, esteemed colleague. Though I would point out that a narrative analysis of contemporary identity formation marginalizes extraterritorial influences.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
What then, this is my question, is the common denominator between your five countries?
This, then, is my answer: I like them.
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
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