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Hello, Bernd:<br><br>
At 12:00 a.m. 20/09/2002 -0600, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Gilbert,<br><br>
What is the full Scale?</blockquote><br>
The best explanation is in an oldie but goodie of Cultural
Anthropology: The Hidden Language by Edwin Hall.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>And which cultures would you
see as 'Oral(preferred) Cultures'?</blockquote><br>
The Latin American culture in which I work most, tends to be polychronic
and oral-preferred, especially in the middle to lower classes. In
my opinion, it is more than just an auditive or auditive-kinetic
representational system (to use the NLP jargon), and more than just
a compensation for NOT having something (like a "good"
education). It seems to me to also have VERY strong cultural
underpinnings (values, beliefs and assumptions).<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Oral preferred would then mean, not
a question of abilities, they<br>
dominate both layers of world construction, but really a cultural<br>
'decision'</blockquote><br><br>
IMNSHO (In my not-so-humble opinion), yes.<br><br>
I met many people in ex-oral(only)-cultures who have learned to
read<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>and write in school, but it stays a
thin layer, sometimes looking<br>
like a simulation...</blockquote><br>
Great examples. Thanks.<br><br>
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