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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How enlightened are they? How educated? How worldly? I'm struggling to find the right word, but are they familiar with quasi exotic things?

We were all just talking about Christmas being two weeks away and how it has snuck up on us. Somebody said 'what's your meal going to be this year'? The new guy said Bouillabaisse. Literally three quarters of my office didn't know what it was.

And then I realized I was working with people way less cultured than myself.[/quote]

You must be super old to try and make a troll post using a French recipe as a cultural touch point. [/quote]

I'm 43. And honestly I think of Bouillabaisse as more of a west coast thing than a French thing.[/quote]

I'm 45 from the west coast and have never had bouillabaisse. I was vaguely aware it was a soup.

People have different cultural touchstones, it doesn't make them "uncultured." Right now I work with a lot of people from NYC. I have had to learn about it, as I know very little. Growing up in the SF Bay Area I can promise you very few people there know or care about NYC and many have never been: [b]no one thinks it's relevant.[/b] I'm sure we'd come across as uncultured to someone who does care.[/quote]

What does this even mean? Relevant to what? It’s the largest city in America. Is Paris “relevant?” Is Tokyo? Nairobi? [/quote]

Paris is a great example. Nothing against Paris but no, it's not relevant to my life. I don't know the neighborhoods, or the big office buildings or restaurants, or the transit system or the parks. Not knowing those things doesn't make me uncultured, it just means the focus of my life is elsewhere. Ditto for NYC. [/quote]

Fine, but that DOES make you uncultured. Especially because you don't even have the slightest curiosity about it. Being cultured means being well versed in a vast array of things and being able to have a conversation about them whether they are relevant to your day-to-day or not. [/quote]

What's your favorite borscht recipe?  Chicken lips? Taco? Poutine? [/quote]

You missed the point entirely. [/quote]

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