ahem.
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there is also a problem with a parallel culture in this country that operates alongside the mainstream culture of success and achievement
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i dont understand anything about this sentence.
what is this "mainstream culture of success and achievement" you speak of?
i remember hearing a parallel characterization in the big lebowski--the other lebowski, the non-dude lebowski, said it. but he was a character in a satire.
these "parallel cultures"--what are they? informal economies?
what problems are you talking about? for whom are there these problems?
obviously a messageboard conversation tends to be about generalities...but there is a kind of line past which i no longer understand things: once they float at a sufficient altitude, i cant see them. what it sounds to me like is that you are juxtaposing a mythological construct--this "success and achievement" business--to a reference to a vastly more complex social reality that involves everywhere, all the time "parallel" forms of activity...what it sounds like is that you have an aesthetic preference for this myth of unity and are disturbed by evidence that it is only a myth.
or you could be talking about social spaces that seem transparent to you, that you move through effortlessly and that you characterize with this curious phrase "success and achievement"--and to which yuo juxtapose more closed-seeming spaces that are not about you.
it's hard to tell. maybe the term culture is the problem.
anyway, please explain, sir.