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Mobile phones don't define a culture. Almost every culture on the planet has adopted them now. Attitudes and shared behaviors do.
by collyw 9y ago
Mobile phones don't define a culture. Almost every culture on the planet has adopted them now.
Attitudes and shared behaviors do.
- mattzito 9y 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 9y 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