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Submitted by sunflashwarrior on February 5, 2007
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If you are reading this, it means you too managed to be born. How and where we come into this world affects our experience of the world, and I hasten to add that none of us asked for the adventure. However, once here on earth, the adventure is often delightful and occasionally destructive. I arrived in New York, which was the right place for me, even if it is in Yankee territory. Technically, therefore, I am a Yankee. I've been called worse. I have, since moving to Tennessee from New York, been teased and have heard all the "You know you're a Yankee
" jokes. You know the ones I mean: "You know she is a Yankee because she doesn't have any problems pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce" correctly," "You know she is a Yankee because for breakfast, she would prefer potatoes au gratin to grits," or one of my all time favorites, "You know she is a Yankee because she doesn't know what a moon pie is."
Seriously though, the phenomenon of the cultural divide has assumed particular significance in our modern world, particularly in the context of globalization, the dismantling of geographical barriers arising largely on account of the internet and an emergence of digital communities and digital means of communication. All these have resulted in a high level of interaction amongst people of different cultural backgrounds. Bridging the cultural divide has simultaneously gained importance. Yet the cultural divide between Northerners and Southerners in the United States of America continues to be evident in almost all areas of our daily lives.
We are all Americans, yet, the cleavages between the cultures of the North and South have not been filled with forgive and forget. These differences entail more than brides in the North being registered at Tiffany's and brides in the South being registered at Wal-Mart. The chasm which exists north and south of the Mason-Dixie Line can not be explained away by choices such as in the North: No kids in the back of...
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