What is glaringly absent from any mass=mediated contact with other cultures and the alternatives they provide for the construal of reality is the immediately dramatic interweaving of our life stories with those of others. We may become quite familiar, say, with a particular pygmy family that a documentary film maker live with for six months and whose lives are the subject of a twelve-hour series on pygmy culture. ... But we are not friends.. ..In short, we are not part of that family's story and they in turn are not truly part of ours.
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Date: 2007-11-10 08:42 pm (UTC)..In short, we are not part of that family's story and they in turn are not truly part of ours.