Chinese Culture Fading as the Country Urbanizes

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Culture is just a term to indicate what people do, so the false dichotomy is false and a dichotomy.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Culture is just a term to indicate what people do, so the false dichotomy is false and a dichotomy.

While strictly speaking true, that seems somewhat obscurantist to the extent that people or groups of people often perceive their sets of things that they do as falling into some sort of continuity or narrative.

But is it the same narrative everywhere? Or even within each 'culture'?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Culture is just a term to indicate what people do, so the false dichotomy is false and a dichotomy.

While strictly speaking true, that seems somewhat obscurantist to the extent that people or groups of people often perceive their sets of things that they do as falling into some sort of continuity or narrative.

But is it the same narrative everywhere? Or even within each 'culture'?

No, of course not, which is why it's definitely possible to interpret 'culture' in an excessively static and essentialist way. I don't think that that invalidates the premise of this article.

I think you mean 'impossible'.

Of course it doesn't invalidate the article. Only the argument that this is necessarily a bad thing or that Chinese are losing some essential 'Chinese-ness'.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

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Ok, it might be possible. But would it give you a correct answer? Me? I'm skeptical.

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Of course you can, but could you mind elaborating on what these are?

I mean, we have to ask, what do the Chinese think of it? Especially those migrating.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

People have to stop talking in abstractions when referring to people.