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Are you suggesting that communities can stay frozen in time, unchanging forever? Even the Amish have adopted cell phones and automobiles, and the Satmars in NY
by mattzito 8y ago
Are you suggesting that communities can stay frozen in time, unchanging forever?
Even the Amish have adopted cell phones and automobiles, and the Satmars in NYC are huge WhatsApp users.
Any community that thinks they can remain totally insular is both fooling itself and doomed to failure.
- creaghpatr 8y ago>Are you suggesting that communities can stay frozen in time, unchanging forever? No
- collyw 8y agoMobile phones don't define a culture. Almost every culture on the planet has adopted them now. Attitudes and shared behaviors do.
- mattzito 8y agoWhen your culture is defined around ideas that technology has a negative effect on your attitudes and shared behaviors, things like mobile phones are powerful signifiers. My point is that even highly insular cultures with strict restrictions about modernity and technology recognize that their beliefs and attitudes need to adapt with the times in certain ways.
- okmokmz 8y agoMobile phones themselves do not define a culture, but the Amish beginning to use them seems to be a pretty clear shift in their attitude and behaviors in relation to technology