Would you consider yourself as born/raised in the same culture that you now live in, though? ... that is, if I remove "nationality". Erm, I think it's off the revised version, though that might've been going up right as you were replying. The second version asks where you live, and whether you're a citizen, so it doesn't contrast where you grew up versus where you live now.
I'd like to say, "have you lived in the same culture all your life" -- that's what all of this is getting at, whether the person is lifer in culture or newcomer/transient -- but even within smaller countries you can have some divergent cultures, and the US isn't the only place where people would consider "the folks up north" to be an "entirely different culture" than wherever the speaker is. Hell, my Swedish stepmother seems to consider the southern part of Sweden to be a bunch of aliens, so I could see her interpreting "lived in the same culture" with a big honking NO if she'd spent any significant time living down at the Denmark-end of the country.
Any ideas? What kind of question would get an answer from you of, "yeah, I've been living in the same general culture the majority of my life." ?
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Date: 15 May 2010 07:59 pm (UTC)I'd like to say, "have you lived in the same culture all your life" -- that's what all of this is getting at, whether the person is lifer in culture or newcomer/transient -- but even within smaller countries you can have some divergent cultures, and the US isn't the only place where people would consider "the folks up north" to be an "entirely different culture" than wherever the speaker is. Hell, my Swedish stepmother seems to consider the southern part of Sweden to be a bunch of aliens, so I could see her interpreting "lived in the same culture" with a big honking NO if she'd spent any significant time living down at the Denmark-end of the country.
Any ideas? What kind of question would get an answer from you of, "yeah, I've been living in the same general culture the majority of my life." ?