tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-713627637329100102.post5617697952975562800..comments2023-09-18T05:32:39.729-07:00Comments on Cultural Studies: tom peelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00099398747588307410noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-713627637329100102.post-46892532144280403652007-09-11T11:34:00.000-06:002007-09-11T11:34:00.000-06:00Tom-The questions you raised from the reading: "Ho...Tom-<BR/>The questions you raised from the reading: "How, then, do we think of ourselves? How do we (should we?) stop thinking of ourselves as primarily one thing or another?" really appealed to me. <BR/><BR/>I grew up in two very different cultures, one Euro-american (German immigrants), and one Indo-american/canadian(kwkwk'wkw). There is a great diparity in the cultural values, stories, foods, etc. of each. <BR/><BR/>Growing up, that tension never really allowed me to feel comfortable in either, and it wass only as I grew older that I began to form a feeling of membership--however partial--in each; sort of an internal example of Storey's "hybridization." My identity, then, is not compartmentalized as one thing or another: I'm something of an aggregate of bits and pieces from each tradition.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02251343957995983463noreply@blogger.com