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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Culture" 2008.06.25 (02) [E/LS]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="3">From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font size="3">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a></div>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Anyone from Germany is thus expected to be
some type of Bavarian. (I wish I had a dollar for every time I was
asked what I was planning to do for Oktoberfest and for Fasching, and
people quickly change the topic when I explain that those are not part
of my heritage.</span><br></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="3">Ron and All;</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="3">It's not part of my heritage either, but I still like
Oktoberfests. They're even bigger in Australia. The local German
Association might organise them but the majority of people enjoying the
day understand "Bier" and "Bratwurst", and that's about it. Including
many members of the German Association!</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="3">For most non-Germans, it isn't a cultural issue, it's
a beer, food and entertainment issue. If you introduce them to a Saxon
beer-drinking occasion, they'll be in to that too.</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="3">Paul Finlow-Bates</font></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div><font size="3">From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font size="3">sassisch@yahoo.com></font></a></div>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3">Subject: Culture<br><br>Hi, Paul!<br><br>Of course Northerners don't necessarily <i>boycott</i> Oktoberfest and Fasching, and, as you said, some people will attend <i>any</i> function that has boozing as its main pursuit. What we are talking about here is resentment or rejection of being included in a</font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3"> stereotype</font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3"> based on a culture not one's own.<br>
<br>I'm sure there are some English people (however few they may be ... ;-) ) that go out of their way to eat haggis and wear kilts (well, at least the male royals do for symbolic reasons). That's one thing. It's another thing if you move to an "exotic" country and people expect you to attend Burns Nicht and wear a kilt while piping in the haggis.<br>
<br>Marcus, how about writing a piece about Low Saxon Faslom for the new "Traditions" presentation? I did not grow up with it and wonder if it belongs mainly to Roman Catholic communities. I take it the name <i>Falsom</i> is related to <i>Fastelavend</i>. <br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron</font>
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