Are you a culture-less barbarian?

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I own weapons and...

I use cutting edge technology regularly
84
8%
I use cutting edge technology more than the average person
65
6%
I am a college student or graduate
76
7%
I am in the middle or upper socioeconomic classes
98
9%
I have a white collar job (or am retired/unemployed/etc from one)
87
8%
I volunteer or donate time, effort, money, or goods to environmental, social, artistic, technological, or educational ventures (garden club, band parent, habitat for humanity, etc)
61
6%
I live in a suburban or urban area
95
9%
I am an educator (dance teacher, lecturer, choir director, etc)
23
2%
I know more than one language
42
4%
I am a patron of the visual arts (photography, painting, etc)
43
4%
I am a patron of the performing arts (music, plays, dance, theater)
51
5%
I am a patron of folk or cultural arts (quilting, storytelling, pysanky, knitting, etc)
17
2%
I am a patron of the culinary arts (notable wine, beer, food, etc)
40
4%
I read or have read many culturally noteworthy publications (classic books, overseas news, mythologies, etc)
58
5%
I am a musician, writer, dancer, artist, architect, chef, or in any other way I create art or culture
41
4%
I travel or have traveled regularly or widely
81
7%
I make conscious choices to be a good steward (reduce/reuse/recycle/restore material goods, dispose of oil appropriately, etc)
77
7%
There is another way not listed that I am "cultured" (host exchange students, attend deaf chats, work out at a gym, etc)
41
4%
I have absolutely no culture and am a barbarian
18
2%
 
Total votes: 1098

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chasfm11 wrote:It strikes me as odd that the "emancipated" artists who decry guns and religion as Bourgeois seem to use those subjects in their work for the apparent purpose of deriding those who appreciate them. If the subject of guns is so low class, why even pretend that it exists?
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hirundo82 wrote:What's the point of knowing you are better than everybody else if you don't let everybody else know too?
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AndyC wrote: "Oh, dahling, you just have to hear Yngwie doing Vivace with the Japanese Philharmonic! Simply smashing! What - you've never heard of Yngwie? :totap:

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=tJCq0geknl0[/youtube]
Don't know Yngwie. But I know of Leo Kottke! :cool:
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How did I ever miss this post? :headscratch
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WildBill wrote:How did I ever miss this post? :headscratch
After 3.5 years, how did you find it? :mrgreen:
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Dave2 wrote:
WildBill wrote:How did I ever miss this post? :headscratch
After 3.5 years, how did you find it? :mrgreen:
I did a search for Leo Kottke to make sure that a song was not previously posted.
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DoubleJ wrote:They are so "cultured" and read such wonderful works of literacy, but I guarantee you not of those hoplophobes has read To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak The Truth. And yet, they try to espouse this air of (oh, no, I'm gon' say it) elitism.

You see folks, this is what I'm surrounded by in the greater Seattle area. "Oh, you poor uneducated, country bumpkin and your antiquated ways."
My own girlfriend (don't any of you say a word) even wrote off my gun totin' ways as just some by-product of PTSD.
She later told me that the Bill of Rights was just "some guy's" ideas on what rights were...

this is the pervasive viewpoint up here. It makes mah head numb...
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I could check more than 18 of those, and I take my CW to all of them where I legally can.
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