Anthropology, 6th Period

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

There's coffee brewing, or bottles of water on the desk. Daniel smiles at them with his own coffee, and waves his hand towards them. "Help yourself," he said.

"Today, what we're going to be discussing ties in with the point from last lesson that people usually are not aware of their culture.

Ethnocentrism.

What is it? Is it just something that affects anthropologists? Is it something that you yourself have experienced or encountered? Can you think of any examples of it you've seen in Fandom?"

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[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I guess the best way to identify you would be by your nationality. Or" Blair bounced excitedly. "We could have a truly globally enlightened culture and everyone would be one society and only identified by their names. That would be so awesome."

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki nodded. "I don't really think about myself in terms of my nationality because I'm used to it, I think. I do think about myself in terms of my being a witch, though," she added. "I think I feel I've been more shaped by that than my nationality. If we had one large global society," she mused, "would we have a loss of culture? I mean, less diversity and more homogeneity, as cultures mingled and absorbed each other?"