Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19980730152508.006cfe8c@pop.uvic.ca> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:25:08 -0700 From: Kristin Ackerson <mailto:ka@UVIC.CA> Subject: Re: Values among villagers To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 12:27 AM 7/29/98 EDT, Nicole Richards wrote: >hello all,
>
>Where is the list of values for the Europeans and Americans?
The list is omnipresent and widely distributed: we call it "history", "development", "the internet" and "art", among many others. The strange thing is the assumption that "villagers" could have a universal set of values cross-cutting class, gender, sexuality, age and all global influences. Likewise Europeans and Americans, in all of their diversity, are essentialized at the peril of not understanding "them" at all.
Kristin Ackerson