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[quote=LEON8ME,283390]Open Question :  I am wondering about a feeling ( perception, bias ) that I have started to define, in myself.  Has anyone else felt something like this ... ?

I think it is a kind of wearyness with the familiar. It has been said that familiarity breeds contempt. I feel that I have become contemptuous of recent popular culture in America. So much of "pop" culture completely overlooks traditional values of reverence for Mother Nature, honor for the family, and sincerity. I think because I have become such a cynic about the character of many people immersed in Western pop culture, I have started to develop a yearning to experience ideas, paradigms, and cultures that are very different than my own...  a yearning for difference.  A yearning for engagement with different people, far-away geography, fundamentally different cultures, different racial esthetics, "old-fashioned" traditional ethics.  I think I really want to engage with a people that have not been brainwashed by Big Money Corporations, Hollywood, Big Money Lawyers, Dirty Rich Old Men, Panderers of Vanity, and the bottomless swamp of Judaeo-Christian-Muslim conflict.

Is this understandable ?

There ARE isolated, minority cultures in the Americas that have held on to traditional values.  These cultures have not received much notice in the popular media. I am talking about Native American Nations, First American Aboriginal Peoples.

I have lived my entire life very close to an "Indian Reservation" in upstate New York.  I seem to always have been favorably biased toward Native American culture and values.  Do people in China perceive the fundamental difference between "pop" culture Americans and Native Americans ?[/quote]

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