Klarinet Archive - Posting 000158.txt from 2005/03

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] German sound
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:00:46 -0500

Tom Flavel wrote:

> My thought is that you're saying geographic
> groups effectivley no longer exist (in, I
> assume, developed countries). What exists
> instead? People still have a sense of unity.
> I think that the groups still exist - even though
> they're not geographically correlating to
> anything in particular, though that's where
> they may have originated. [snip] Was
> geography really the original defining point
> anyway?

If you think about the story line in Fiddler On The Roof, at least one
of the tale's characters left for ideological reasons. In real life,
we've discussed the Scaramouche case recently.

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