How important is it for you to be 'cultured?'

How important is it for you to be 'cultured?'

What does this mean to you?

And do you consider yourself cultured?


There are many Europeans who feel that Americans are uncultured dumb oafs. I argue that is just not true----most Americans are very cultured which is why we keep guns in our beds and kiss them before we go to sleep, and while you can find all kinds of stupid recipes in your fancy cook books, only the finest of cuisines are kept very secret, and most American fast food restaurants keep their recipes very secret. Yeah! Try making a Big Mac in your Michelin Five Star restaurant----it can't be done!

OK---EVERYTHING I wrote after what many Europeans think of Americans is a joke!

By the strictest definition, to be cultured is to be... "characterized by refined taste, manners, and good education."

But clearly how such things are defined are determined by the culture that one is cultured in. For example, I would consider many of my native friends who follow the Red Road, i.e. the traditional Native traditions to be very cultured, even if some of them are not as highly educated in terms of Western education, for they are very educated in terms of Non-Western traditional Native knowledge, for example in such things as cosmology and spirituality.

Traditionally in Western society, it was members of the aristocracy that were cultured, yet in dealing with anyone they deemed as below their station in life, they treated them with the illest of manners.