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author | luxagraf <sng@luxagraf.net> | 2016-01-28 20:53:04 -0500 |
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committer | luxagraf <sng@luxagraf.net> | 2016-01-28 20:53:04 -0500 |
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parent | c595b82cdf9cbcf2d3292573cdd53192f1780b14 (diff) |
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ One of the first things I did after we bought our house was to extend the chain I come from a place full of fences. Not little half height chain link fences like we have, but full six foot sealed privacy fences that encircle every property line. I assumed this was Just How It Was for a very long time. One of the big revelations of my life was coming east of the Mississippi River for the first time and realizing that in fact this was not just how it was. -There is plenty of unfenced land out west, where I am from, far more than there is back here, east of the Mississippi where I know live. But that's open land. In the city and towns of the west, particularly southern California, the privacy fence is de riguer. +There is plenty of unfenced land out west, where I am from, far more than there is back here, east of the Mississippi where I now live. But that's open land. In the city and towns of the west, particularly southern California, the privacy fence is de riguer. As a child the privacy fence is a near absolute barrier. Sure, you can scale them, but they you're in someone else's property. I suspect that if you rounded up kids from where I grew up and surveyed them on attitudes toward open space and compared them with kids who grew up in places where the privacy fence was known only as a prop in bad sitcoms, you'd get some startlingly different outlooks on open space and live more generally. Where you can go affects your ability to conceive of where you can go. Which is to say the limits your immediate culture imposes on you run a very high risk of becoming your own -- that's what culture is and what acculturation is for. |