#ethonography

The Interpretation of Cultures

Learning binary codes, to program the robots.

I mean, I know a lot about the timeline of TJLC thinking but I’m talking more broadly. Does something like this exist? I mean no narrative will be unbiased, but I’d be super interested! Just in changes of thinking, points of tension over the years, etc....

If I could conduce [an?] ethonography anywhere in the world I think I would go to England.  I would go there because we tend to assume that because the language is the same the culture is the same as well.  We assume that because we can understand a verbal exchange we can also understand the culture behind it, and I feel that this is a false assumption.  I think that the notion that Americans are descendents of people from England adds to this false assumption that the cultures are the same.  Of course in reality this assumption it itself is false, as a people we aren't just descended from the English, and even those of us who are have been brought up to adopt the culture that is uniquely American.  I would especially like to look into the instances in which American English and British English differ. I think it would be interesting to trace the origins of their words (especially words for things that developed some time after the colonization of America).  For example I would make a point to look into why they call it "the tube" and we call it "the subway".  Since this is something that would appear in both cultures long after the divide of American and English culture I think it would be interesting to look into how cultural differences led to the naming of a singular thing in two different ways by two different cultures.