{"id":1561,"date":"2009-09-08T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2009-09-08T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:00:08","slug":"the-importance-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/ghost-commerce/">https://www.andrewplimmer.com/ghost-commerce/</a> Yesterday, in response to a story in the NY Times, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/08\/world\/africa\/08sudan.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan Court Fines Woman for Wearing Trousers<\/a>,&#8221; Andy Revkin posted <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/07\/progress-and-who-wears-the-pants\/\" target=\"_blank\">this meta thought<\/a> at Dot Earth about the future of women in the developing world and how that ties into humanity&#8217;s prospects for sustainability:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/about-rfd/">https://raceflowdevelopment.com/about-rfd/</a> In a broader sense, then, there appears to be simmering tension over &#8220;who wears the pants.&#8221;\u009d How that gets worked out probably will help determine whether there is a relatively smooth journey toward more or less 9 billion people on a finite planet in the next few decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/experience/"></a> An astute Dot Earth reader offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/07\/progress-and-who-wears-the-pants\/#comment6\" target=\"_blank\">excellent anecdote<\/a> about women in Saudi Arabia. It speaks to the importance of culture in all this. (<a href=\"http:\/\/savageminds.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Savage Minds<\/a>: where are you? You&#8217;re missing a golden opportunity.) Here&#8217;s the kicker from the comment (which should be read in full):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/facweek/"></a> So changing a cultural or religious taboo is not something outsiders can impose upon a society without fierce resistance. The change, if it comes at all, must come from within, and the pioneers will pay a painful price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/">Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription</a> Yesterday, in response to a story in the NY Times, entitled &#8220;Sudan Court Fines Woman for Wearing Trousers,&#8221; Andy Revkin posted this meta thought at Dot Earth about the future of women in the developing world and how that ties into humanity&#8217;s prospects for sustainability: In a broader sense, then, there appears to be simmering&#8230;<span> <a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1479"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1561\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2441,2462,2919],"tags":[906,1002,1492],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-population","tag-culture","tag-environment","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}