If you were your own culture of people could you make an accurate description of how your people wold act,think,work and other such nuiances of life?
(To put in simple terms)
Lets say there was a whole “race” of people that were exactly like you. How would they live? What kind of religion would they have? What kind of beleifs to they hold dear,ect. Give it a try, it’s kinda fun. I’ll post my own in a second.
I don’t know.
The workings of a society rely on complex interactions of the people within, and those interactions rely on the diversity of the population.
I figure a city of me’s would degrade into a shouting match over who doesn’t have to “paint the house” or “balance the tires” or “solve this equation” and nothing would get done.
'Course I can’t help feel bad for not going with the spirit of the OP…
LOL It’s okay Mirage. The post had 83 clicks but goose egg as far as replys so I’m happy someone at least responded. Prehaps my example will give an idea.
THE BLAQUNEESE PEOPLE:
Who are they: The “Blaquneese” people (a so coined term by their peers) are a group of African Americans (by Physcial Ancestary) who speak Japanese as their second language and have a somewhat cutural identification with the Japanese people,though it is not of their enthic origin. They ae an Enigima to most others because of the fact they are not of mixed blood but seem to understand the language and culture of the Japanese while still retaining their own in a unique blend. Most would put them into the catageroy of people who “just like Japanese things” (I.E Forginers who go and live in Japan because they like the language,culture,ect.) however this seems not to be the case
Attitudes: Blaquneese tend to be very shy at first meet (much like some Japanese) but after getting to know a person,they are easy to make friends with. This would make the assumption that they are gullible,however this is not always the case. They are generally friendly oriented and like to meet new people,owever beause of their initial shyness,this sometimes rubs others the wrong way or causes mixed signals. They try to avoid offending others at any cost.
Although generally open, Blaquneese are not always confortable inviting others over to their dweelng places,even close friends. The reason is that they are generally private oriented people, and if ones house is not clean or some other nuiance,they fear offending others.
Language: While English is the primary language,Japanese is the main second languasge of the people. Most speak at a fluent enough level to give conversation and all can read and write the Hiragana and Katakana Japanese script. Hard topics (such as law and religion) are usually done in english hoevr and Kanji (chinese script) is still not 100% literaly among the balquneese community. However daily changes are being made to improve the literacy level.
Although English is the primary language of the people, they Generally prefer to speak in Japanese…to other Blaquneese or Japanese people however. When confronted with a person of another Enthic origion who can also speak Japanese,they revert back to English to “save face.” After all,the other Japanese speaker may not know as much as the blaquneese and therefore may be offended (a big no no), or the blaquneese may know less than the other and therefore be embarassed.When questoned by a person who does ot speak Japanese about their fluency they will reply “I don’t speak it very well.” When questoned by a Japanese speaker (of any race) they reply “I cannot speak it at all.” To save face.
MUSIC: Blaquneese generally listen to all forms of music from classicl to rock to hip hop to the new emerging mix in between (I.E Limp Bizkit is a fave) However recntly J-Pop and even more popular J-Hop and R&B has been introduced and as quickly replaced American music as the music of choice. It has also helped to improve literacy. Top favorates among the people are Hirai Ken,Utada Hikaru, The Yellow Monkey and the hip hop groups Nitro and Em-Flo. It is not uncommon to hear Outkast and Aeromsmith along with Utaa Hikaru and The Yellow Monkey coming out of a blaquneese stero. Blaquneese also like “Enka” that is Japanese folk music. This is odd,because even modern day young Japanese generally don’t like Enka.
FOOD: Blaquneese,true to form both enjoy southern cooking and Japanese food,as well as Hawaiian food. They often mix the too,so it’s common to have Zaru Soba and Fried Chicken at the same meal :D. Blaquneese also are fond of drinking although they prefer Sweet Cocktails (I.E Mai Tai’s) as opposed to beer. They are also fond of mixing drinks usually involving Malibu (a Coconut rum)
RELIGION: Once again,the religios beleifs show the contrast between the Japanese and Afro-American backgrounds of the people. Generally Blaquneese are Christian, and do attend church services ever week if possibile. Some serives are done in English,but blaquneese also attend services done in Japanese. Those services are unconfortable sometimes because they tend to stick out like a sore thumb.
While Christian,some Blaquneese also hold a number of Buddhist precepts such as a belief in reincarnation and some also follow the Shin-chu sect of Buddhist started by Shinran Shonin. There is a close paralell betwen this sect of Buddhisim and Christianity as far as beleifs go, so blaquneese feel confortable studying both whithout feeling liek they are “compromising” Confuciusam is also improtant to blaquneese.
and there you have it. Now wehre is everyone elses?? 
Sounds like to me they are too shy to ever get together. This would lead to the problem the Shakers had: no reproduction.
It would be a nation of low productivity, nobody would want to work boring menial jobs. There would also probably be regular revolts against the government.
If everyone was like me, there would be no prepackaged tv dinners, but there would be an omelette shop on every srteet corner.
ve Tansuir are a shirty people, so short but blazing rows would be commonplace.
We would not have any strong primary industry, because no one would have the tenacity and application to complete a 4 year engineering degree.
As a society, we would suck arseweasels. I’d far rather live in a diverse community.
Also, I think this topic is better suited to IMHO.
What an ace idea.
We spend so much of our time wondering why people are different and then when thinking of a society of people the same realise it would never work.
ooo, temptation…
the land of dude…
lots of tolerance,smiley,happy people.
lot more ‘back to nature’, parks all over the city, fast luxury trains ( 1st class standard for everyone ) for the commuters.
high culture all over but normal as well for those that like it now and then.
less products in the shop but better ones i.e. none of that cheap and nasty, more top stuff.
free university education for anyone who wants it and can pass the exam, lots of concerts and theatre.
er, thinking about it, just like living on a ‘very green’ university campus for everyone really.
er, dudes would not mind working as required and seen as required.
People would visit and say ’ i wanna move to dude country’, happiness surveys would show dude land to be the best in the world and if not action would be taken to ensure it is !
mm, point there, why do governments not take happiness surveys eh ?
Not so. Shy in general nature,but if someone starts the conversation or once confort ensues,the blaquneese people go all out and are no longer “shy” espicall when Alchaol is involved
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Man, I just scared myself. On second thought, thank God I’m not the Supreme Ruler of the Universe! Long live diversity!
-John Donne (I think)
Or, in answer to the OP: No.
Umm…but the OP isint a “yes” or “no” queston…hey but whatever floats your boats. At leas folks are catching on now. Thanks for all of your replys.
BTW,sorry to say but I disagree with that poem. Every man (person) is an Island because no two people are alike. While we do rely on each other,everyone is still their own unique “culture” unto themselves which is the point of the OP.
‘for whom the bell tolls’ - wow, that would be a good title for a great book <grin>.
It’d be a dictatorship. A friendly, benign one of course! I’d have to get in first, coz all the other me’s would want to be top doggie as well. There’d be heaps of attempted coups.
There would be no McDonalds. Beer would be sold on every street corner. Nobody would ever get very drunk though. Cannabis would still be illegal, it’d be no fun otherwise. However the punishment would be the cop saying “Haha! Gotcha!” and sticking his fingers in his ears and pulling a face. Everybody would have a cat and a dog. But small dogs would be illegal to own. There would be Asian restaurants everywhere. And LOTS of pretty Chinese girls. All cars would have V8 engines (with some new environmentally friendly technology we’d develop). Everybody would use foul language. People I simply don’t like would be deported. I would selectively apply Islamic law whenever I was in the mood. Punishments would be creative. There would be civic Dopefests in the Town Hall. We’d have an extensive light rail system. Air travel would be cheap. Movies would have a new censorship rating, “C” for ‘complete crap’. The internet would be free and high speed. I would be very corrupt. Hmm… think that about covers it.
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<sorry, couldn’t resist >
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Not to mention all those lovely abbreviations: i.e., etc., eg., AM, PM, cp.
And the whole idea of a representative republic.
p.s. This thread is so not GD! Can somebody please move to IMHO where it belongs? (p.s.! another gift of the populi Romani!)
1 Wow Arisutopia sounds a little like Achient Rome,epsically about the religion thing. Guess most blaquneese visitors would be safe since we don’t tend to prothlyze too much.However I wounder if inviting someone to church is aginst the law.
3.An intresting change to the OP is how most have posted if they were there own culture living in their own country. When I first made the thread it was more the idea of how would your clture get along with others in an already pre-existing goverment/country. However I think it makes the OP more intresting the way you guys did it. I shall have to post my own “country” in a little while.
Thanks for the replys.
er, i was quoting month pythons life of brian, ‘ok, ok, apart from the aqueduct,sanitation,wine,roads,public order what have the romans ever done for us !’
Only if the person doing the inviting had been asked repeatedly to stop. Polite people are in no danger from the “don’t bug people about religion” law.
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