Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Americans are a strange amalgam from all around the world. For the college educated and highly trained it is incomprehensible that anyone would choose to live off the grid. Yet, especially in a lot of the southern US, Maine, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska you will find a large number of individuals who have made the choice to step away from society/civilisation. This doesn't include those with mental health disease. I said a strange amalgam as many came here for land of their own, opportunity that they would never have as they were a minority(Jewish in Russia), and misfits that were ostracized in their old homelands. Not to mention the Africans who had no say. So, in our better adjusted communities we all more or less mingle and get along. On our fringes where cultures collide it can be like the border between Pakistan and India. For my friends in Europe, the recent immigrants and integrating them into your societies provides some idea of the stress that can come from radically different cultures meeting and rubbing shoulders. Thomas Sowell has a well researched book"Migrations" that has chapters specifically discussing those who settled in the Appalachia region. Mostly from the border regions of northern England and Scotland when they came their culture was far more violent and tribal than the current residents are in England. The American wing has not changed as much as their European cousins. Be well and all the best. On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 12:19 PM Robert Baron via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/02/22/meet-men-living-deep-ozarks-away-fray/?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.b0ef498bf8f8 > > A fascinating group of well shot photographs in my opinion. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >