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<p>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span><br>Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Culture"</span></p>
Beste Paul,<div><br><div><div>You wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p>From: <span><span style="color:#5b1094">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span><a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Culture" 2011.06.20 (02) [EN]</span></p>
<div>In that case Finland and Sweden had better crank up their immigrant
quota. And France for that matter - twice our area with the same
population.</div><div> </div><div>Singapore may be stable; I have no
desire for England to have Singapore's population density. That
argument is just another example of "you want to control immigration,
you must be a fascist and obviously hate anyone with a dark skin". (I'm
not. I don't).</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>The
amount of space you have as a citizen does not merely depend on the
density of your population. Rather and foremost it's a matter of how you
define your "territory". Some folks just like to keep more distance
than others (both literally and figuratively)...some prefer to judge
from a distance and not interact...some people like to be eccentric and
feel alienated. For those who want to live in isolation, an insula has
often been a good choice. These days however, mobility is ever
increasing, and by consequence, many islands have not been left
untouched. From what I heard though, there's still a lot of uninhabited
space in Siberia and Central Asia for those quirky souls who like some
privacy ;=)</div><div><br></div><div>Migration works in many ways, both
North to South back in the colonisation days, South to North nowadays,
West to East during the Lebensraum era, East to West after the fall of
the Berlin wall.</div><div><br></div><div>What goes around, comes around.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div></div><p><span></span></p>
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<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">----------</font></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
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Subject: Culture<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>In my opinion, Luc's response (above) opens up the question of privacy.<br><br>The perception and boundaries of privacy vary greatly among the world's cultures, as I came to find out through personal experience with vastly different cultures. In many cases, this puts into question our notion of "personal property." In some cultures there is no such thing as "personal property." Everything is shared communally. At the tail end of the Cultural Revolution in China, I had to realize that there was no way of barring male Chinese entering my room without knocking, that asking them not to do so would be tantamount to gross antisocial behavior. ("So, what is it you're trying to hide?")<br>
<br>Europe, and urbanized Western Europe in particular, has a very strongly developed sense of privacy that goes hand in hand with the notion of personal property and liberty. I daresay that this is particularly strongly developed in our Lowlands, arguably most strongly in Britain and in former British colonies. It is the resulting mindset that has been in conflict alternative cultures.<br>
</span><p style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">I'm merely offering this up for consideration and discussion.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</font></p>
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