Sometimes I wonder if it's a Bug, or a Feature. Not that I lived abroad during childhood, but in several ways I might just as well have. Never much interested in the Pop Culture that perfused the lives of most of my age-mates -- music, movies, or (though it came along a bit later) Television -- I picked up only little bits of it, here and there... just enough to get a vague idea of the significance of most people's References. So, yeah, there are considerable amounts of life/cultural background that I don't share with others -- even others of my generation, which is about two generations ahead of yours (& at least that of most of the people I know), I guess. Still... everybody seems to manage, somehow.
And every once in a while something Pops Up. The discussion thread of a non-fan Blog I was skimming recently got diverted to talking about the movie "You Can't Take It With You" -- released when I was about ten years old, I didn't see it for another five or so years, but was Extremely Influenced by it (probably more than I realized until almost twenty years later, when I discovered people somewhat like that in Fandom). A surprising ot of those bloggers -- three or four generations younger than I -- turned out to be familiar with the movie, and to appreciate it.
But not sharing big parts of "the common culture" might help enable one to have a somewhat different perspective, which might benefit all concerned.
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Date: 2009-07-20 03:22 am (UTC)And every once in a while something Pops Up. The discussion thread of a non-fan Blog I was skimming recently got diverted to talking about the movie "You Can't Take It With You" -- released when I was about ten years old, I didn't see it for another five or so years, but was Extremely Influenced by it (probably more than I realized until almost twenty years later, when I discovered people somewhat like that in Fandom). A surprising ot of those bloggers -- three or four generations younger than I -- turned out to be familiar with the movie, and to appreciate it.
But not sharing big parts of "the common culture" might help enable one to have a somewhat different perspective, which might benefit all concerned.