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Subculture and the Modern World

            I am currently pursuing higher education as I have done in the past. I've enjoyed a fruitful career in both software and financial services marketing. However, my most rewarding gig (not financially, but certainly a major step for me in lifelong learning) has been working with adults who have psychiatric or emotional disabilities and wanting to enter the job market. I introduce myself this way because as I interact with a subculture that has to negotiate its way through the mainstream, I can now understand better the views Mary Louise Pratt explicates as she writes of diverse subcultures such as that of children. Children may not be appreciated by the educational system or even parents in some cases as a group of individuals that speak, think and imagine at a different level. Sometimes adults find this difficult to understand. We must aim for an educational system that inspires, respects and provides educational diversity to our children so that they become adults who will not constrain the next generation. .
             One anecdote which comes to mind on a personal level is my having dinner with my brother and his wife at their home along with my nephew (as well as my godson), Lee, when he was five. At the dinner table, Lee and I started making faces at each other - each successive one more outlandish than the previous (it's a fun exercise to try and visualize this). We were both expressing ourselves with an engaging and shared sensed of humor in a way that seemed to me inoffensive. Our amusement was stopped pretty quickly with a stern command from my brother to his son that he either stops disrupting the staid atmosphere or skip supper and go to bed. I received an indignant glare.
             Does a subculture of children exist? Oliver Twist lived in a world where street gangs were practiced in the art of subterfuge through conversation and engaged in petty thievery. My nephew goes to a suburban, mostly white, primarily middle-class and affluent school that teaches largely to tests while valuing less and less the language of a child's inner world.


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