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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is interesting but I keep thinking it only talks about Western world art and music. Can art and music from Asia or South America be part of this discussion?

I love classical music and art and I try to expose my son between soccer practices and all the sports/ school/ play dates but it’s hard. [/quote]

It’s hard enough to make sure my son and I are well versed in the Western arts world, so I am not looking as broadly just yet
-OP[/quote]

OP, everything you post suggests that you’re looking for a social and leg up for your kid. That’s fine. There’s no need to say claim interested in “culture” for its own sake. [/quote]

It’s not true. Where we live culture per se isn’t highly valued. You can be a software engineer or work in finance and know nothing about culture and you will be respected more than a teacher who knows art and literature
-OP[/quote]

That’s an odd red herring. You’ve asked whether a software engineer can be cultured. So it seems you want both professional and social success for your DC. In any case, your kid may live elsewhere as an adult.

It’s unclear why you’re disguising your motives. [/quote]

It’s unclear why you don’t trust me when I tell you my motives. I want my son to be a better person. Someone said you had to have a low paying job to be cultured, so I said I had no idea and thought it could be a side dish so to speak.
But it’s ok, you are free to think what you want about me or my motives :)[/quote]

Lesson 1 of American Culture: if you have to ask how to be cool, you'll never know.

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This is only true wrt all the cringy stuff like HS popularity and coolness.
This is the opposite of culture and intellectualism [/quote]

Nope. The cool people are the ones [b]creating[/b] culture and doing interesting things, not the people trying to figure out what's popular so they can [b]look[/b] "cultured".
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