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> But it's a totally different culture, speaking French etc, with its own distinct history, politics, etc. That "totaly" seems just wrong to me. The cultures
by concordDance 4y ago
> But it's a totally different culture, speaking French etc, with its own distinct history, politics, etc.
That "totaly" seems just wrong to me.
The cultures are incredibly similar in how they live, which is why they leave the same artefacts. A pair of truly different cultures would be something like pre-colonisation Maori and the ancient Hittites.
- mritchie712 4y agoAgreed. I'm from the US, I don't feel out of place or uncomfortable at all in Quebec, but I'd have a hard time operating in pre-colonisation Maori.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoStereotype: American tourists don't feel out of place anywhere :-) As a Canadian, I love Quebec but it feels distinctly quite different. And the point of my comparison here not to compare situations like Maori and now, but that two cultures can be side by side and have a 90% same material (and even genetic) make-up, while still having entirely different linguistic, political and historical aspects. That would not be observable in a purely material analysis, a few thousand years down the line.