[78-L] Olde-timers: origins and self definition

[eugene hayhoe]

Re:
Gene,  I think the latter way is the "right" way.  I think each individual 
person should make of themselves what they will,  and not allow any of the 
rest of us to put them in a box.  For example,  I see someone who moves from 
another country to the US and identifies as an American is just as American 
as anyone else.  I don't know all the details of Baker's life,  but my 
impression was that once she went to France she felt at home there,  for a 
variety of reasons,  and I believe that she herself indentified as 
French....if it worked for her, that's good enough for me.

Taylor
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Taylor - 
 
I pretty much agree, but conversely I also would have to concede the point that her French 'peer', born in France at the same time she was born in St. Louis, would have a different outlook and background. Don't mean to make any value based statements about that, just that it is not the same, even if they end up in the same place. Have watched people argue about 'so and so is a ------------ even if he says he isn't' & it is very strange.

Gene

--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:


From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Olde-timers
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2:56 PM



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Olde-timers


> Baker was Americain..can't believe nobody's caught this!
>
> dl


Yeah,  but she didn't identify as an American,  did she?   Neither did Henry 
James or  Eliot.

Taylor


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