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>of the Quechua culture.  Fortunately (????), the Quechua people have
>managed to remain more isolated and less influenced by the technological
>age
    I believe that the day the Quechua culture starts coming into its own right -
that is, ceases to be dominated by the Peruvian/Spanish culture - the Quechua-
speakers will find it most fortunate that they have retained more of their
culture. 

>  Likewise, the
>14-year old, 10th-generation, monolingual Spanish-speaking Alaves, living
>in Vitoria, learning English, wearing Levis, feasting on cheeseburgers,
>and damaging his auditory nerves with his walkman and the latest American
>Rock Band, is just as Basque as the 2nd-generation Basque American living
>in Buffalo, Wyoming, speaking Euskera, and eating his mother's Basque
>cooking that she learned on her Baserri in Vizcaya.

    
Anyway, let it be said by a Norseman who differs somewhat from his more
heroic, read-bearded, looting and axe-swinging forebears, that a thing like
"Basqueness" will probably always be like Peer Gynt's onion. Abstract identities
are the shadows of our lives, and if you choose to scrutinize your shadow
with a torch, the shadow disappears. "Basqueness" or "Americanity" ;-) are whatever
we mean by those terms, nothing more.

    regards,
        Carsten


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