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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 ! ________________________________________________________ "Velodrome, une cyberkunsthalle parisienne" http://www.mygale.org/07/bary/ presente une nouvelle generation d'artistes parisiens. Des interventions de Yuki Onodera, Akihiko Tsurumi, Pierre Estable, Nadine de Koenigswarter, Pierre Filippi, Leonard Rachita et Leopold Koukissa. Velodrome propose une version en langue anglaise : http://www.mygale.org/07/bary/indexva.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%