Hello, Bernd: At 12:00 a.m. 20/09/2002 -0600, you wrote:
Gilbert, What is the full Scale?
The best explanation is in an oldie but goodie of Cultural Anthropology: The Hidden Language by Edwin Hall.
And which cultures would you see as 'Oral(preferred) Cultures'?
The Latin American culture in which I work most, tends to be polychronic and oral-preferred, especially in the middle to lower classes. In my opinion, it is more than just an auditive or auditive-kinetic representational system (to use the NLP jargon), and more than just a compensation for NOT having something (like a "good" education). It seems to me to also have VERY strong cultural underpinnings (values, beliefs and assumptions).
Oral preferred would then mean, not a question of abilities, they dominate both layers of world construction, but really a cultural 'decision'
IMNSHO (In my not-so-humble opinion), yes. I met many people in ex-oral(only)-cultures who have learned to read
and write in school, but it stays a thin layer, sometimes looking like a simulation...
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