Mono, sub or multi-culture?<br /><br />[quote=The English anthropologist Edward Tylor] definition of culture, in the 20th century "culture" emerged as the central and unifying concept of American anthropology, where it most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially[/quote]<br /><br />To boil it down culture is the ability to encode experiences symbolically and to share them socially.<br /><br />Culture can be looked at as laungauge and custom but there is also "material culture" the items and things produced by social groups which is what the artchaeologist is largely concerned with <br /><br />AD gave us a few specific cultural customs for Dralasites on Inner Reach, Dramune and Yazirians on Hentz, Araks and by giving us PanGal as a language ther are by default 5 languages. <br /><br />This thread probably wont stay focused on human culture and will rabbit trail to other cultures but I wanted to consider ways to distinguish human culture by sytem or planet and even possibly account for sub, minor or other cultures within the human community of a planet or system.<br /><br />For instance I think that human culture on the following planets/systems would all be a little different plus asteroid miners might have a distinct "culture" either in one system or simply throughout the whole Frontier- a brotherhood of Asteroid Miners BAM though the cadre may have helped to foster this sub culture.<br /><br />Possible cultures to define with a custome or two:<br /><br />1. Madderly's Star<br />2. White Light<br />3. Theseus<br />4. Timeon<br />5. Prengular (despite being a multi racial planet I feel that its worth while to look at what human culture here might be here since its the Hub of the Frontier)<br />6. Spacers could form a sub culture though I think I prefer to just have this space was from Clarion and shows it in speach and custom<br />7. BAM brotherhood of astro miner- clannish sub culture with a snobbishness for those not born to it.<br />8. Truane's Star whoes culture will heavily influence Laco's<br /><br />As to the language issue- to effectively discuss this topic I think we need to discuss what the native language of the human population of the Frontier is. its not Pan Gal. This gets tricky as some of us like the cannon statement of a another race of humans (not from earth) evolved in another spiral galaxy and some of us like to just include earth in the setting but far off. What I propose is a name for the language that can work for both: something like Anglese which for the pro earthers would be a mongrel language that evolved in the sol system which is a mixture of English, Spanish and Chinese and for the anti earthers its just a name and it can mean what they like it to mean. or we can call the haman language: Terran which again means what the individual fan of the setting wants it to mean and we all get to hold hands and sing Kum By Ya despite our differences. <br />
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