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Cultural lags: ageism, sexism, localism: a cultural agenda for Europe in the Twenty First Century
Publication . Faria, Luisa Leal de
When recently reading an autobiographical text by a young English writer, published in 2018, I was struck with a growing difficulty in working out the meanings of countless references that crop up in every page, connected with places, media productions, public personalities and events that make up the daily life of a social group within the Millennial generation. I then tried to isolate the layers of incomprehension that obscured several cultural meaning, and found that one might be due to a generational difference, another to the persistence or the coming back of some gender conventions that were supposed to have been overcome after the turn of the century, and lastly, another might be due to specific meanings given to places that become embedded in trends and fashions specific to very local and socially restricted groups. Although not invested with earthshattering meanings, these cultural gaps are significant, and to try to bridge them may help bring different generations closer, offer a better understanding of gender roles in contemporary society, and stress the relevance of the local in a globalised world
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