Growing Up in America. I'm delighted to be here. Please send your questions in now for Professor Harvey Graff. We might do that by ethnicity, or race, or gender or generation, age or region. But undertstanding only comes when we have practice juggling all those things.
Culture is very hard to talk about.
We have entire academic subjects from anthropology to history and literature that try to deal with culture. To talk about one culture and its changes leads to missing much. I think if we follow different cultures over time, we find a blending or a weaving of different elements. That might involve age at which one marries. That might also involve whose permission is gained - the person themselves, or the father, or the entire family.