At 17:53 +0100 3/11/98, aharon wrote:
>How would a person who does not have a culture and is free of any
>particular frame of reference (e.g.
>a particular context), can be described?
>I am seeking a word or a term which would be descriptive of such a person,
>rather than
>a description such as "a-cultural" or "barbarian".
Your problem is not linguistic,what you call
judgmental terms is : insults. why has it turned to be
insults while 60 years ago it was technical language ?
Because a serious person would hesitate calling
seriously a monkey "a-cultural". So such terms are rejected
in the metaphoric universe of insults, where any word is
all at once ephemism and provocation, like "you're an ass -
no ! - you're a sociopath."
Particularly technical insults about culture
are the main ground of modern forms of racism. Biological
grounding having lost most of its credit, cultural exclusion
is the substitive argumentation. Now the "nigger" is just
an "alien", not even "a-cultural" just "dis-cultural".
While even in a paranoid nazi's brain an
"a-cultural" human being remains a very abstract
abstraction.
No politically-correct concept for that !
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