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Another caveat:context means a lot in discussions of culture. In actuality, in terms of the elements that make up "culture," a set a of woldview narratives, a characteristic social praxis, cultural symbols,etc. groups that we seem to have different and opposing cultures (thinking of black-white binary in this society),actually share much of the same "culture" symbols. In fact this is what makes the tensions so great at times:there are different construals of the same metanarratives and cultural symbols (eg, over history of race and development of America, the Bible, economics,etc.) For many African Americans, we only discover how "American" we actually are only when we are in a different culture. This can be disconcerting when we discover this reality in another Afro-culture or abroad. Then you get identified as an American,a black American. This is a complex reality but it makes you really thing about your something you take for granted here in different way.
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