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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: RE: English-only Speakers as Unclutured Slobs
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Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 01:47:04 EST
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| English-only speaking people may not be "uncultured", but they
| definitely only have one culture. . . .  -- Avi Gross

Actually, though I agree strongly with most of your article, I
must confess that I cannot agree with the above statement.

There are definitely multiple subcultures in even a small (~150)
population of monolinguals.  The larger the group, the larger
the subcultures become.  In the USA we have a very large group.

In fact, a case can be made for a metaculture mediated by the
television and broadcast media.  However, this is similar to the
case of the independent Jewish culture in Europe, wherein a
deliberate attempt to maintain an independant culture succeeded,
but a metaculture still existed and influenced the members of the
microculture.

Flaming about what I wot not.
Hutch