Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Nightfox
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sun Aug 30 2020 18:11:00

-=> On 08-28-20 12:32, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 Ni> I know some people from Brazil and have visited there a few times.  It
 Ni> seems more common there for people to live with their parents until
 Ni> they get married, etc., and it seems overall they're more
 Ni> family-oriented and group-oriented there.  And then one time while back
 Ni> in the US, I was talking with a few people from Brazil here, and one
 Ni> said she used to like to spend time with other people a lot in Brazil,
 Ni> but while in the US, she started getting used to doing things on her
 Ni> own and started to get more bothered when people would call her at
 Ni> random times asking to hang out or go do something with her, etc..

Similar to my experience with friends from Asian backgrounds.  They were always
doing something with family - parties, dinners, visiting relatives, etc.  To
myself, with an Anglo-Australian upbringing, it was rather foreign.  By
comparison, my relatives are literally scattered up the eastern side of
Australia, from Melbourne to Cairns, an almost 3000km stretch.  And all of that
happened in the space of one generation.

As a matter of fact, there's no one in my family I can even visit right now
(other than my husband, who's here, of course).  My sister in Melbourne is in
stage 4 lockdown, even going down there is restricted to essential purposes,
and private visits are not allowed across the state.  Everyone else is
interstate, on the far side of closed borders, due to COVID-19.  This is one
case where the isolating effects of COVID-19 have been blunted by social
upbringing.


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