Upgrade Syndrome?

[drrayeye (Ray Briggs)]

Hi Chem,

Real cultural fusion usually happens very slowly–and sneaks up on you.

You seldom get to see it in someone’s home—and you probably wouldn’t notice even if it were there.

I’ve posted a thread for examples:

Cultural Fusion examples around me my whole life

My cultural learning experiences began watching my Swedish grandmother cook. We lived in a broader immigrant community of Northern and Southern Europeans, becoming quite prosperous working in the deep pit iron ore mines. To keep their husband’s well fed, the Northern Europeans adapted the Cornish pasty–meat and potatoes wrapped in a pastry shell–into our own UP Michigan pasty. I didn’t experience the Cornish kind until decades later in Pasadena: https://luckybaldwins.pub/ The Southern Europ…