Tag: Culture
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American perspective
Friends very often ask whether I feel myself to be American or whether I’m English yet; and I find I always stammer a bit, and hedge. Do I feel like an American? I don’t know. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Colorado, so you could say I’m definitely American. But it…
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What is your view on psychics who claim to be able to relay messages from dead relatives?
I don’t believe in it. I don’t know what I think about the afterlife entirely—it’s not something I feel I can know; but everything I have experienced, read and encountered leads me to believe that it’s the end of (at least) communication. I don’t believe mediums can communicate with the dead, nor that they can…
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Is there something that US have and the UK should have/do it too?
I’m not entirely sure I understand the question. It’s pretty broad. I think the US has things that make it what it is, some of them good, many poor; but a direct one-for-one swap would not—from my perspective—necessarily bring the benefits they might have in the US. There is, for example, a culture of respect…
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The online society as a language group?
I was recently asked a very interesting question via formspring. An anonymous person asked me: I think the ability to “filter” — to absorb information from many sources and produce a useful result, quickly — is what really defines the “digital native.” Your thoughts? Below is my response. I’d be interested in what you think.…