Cultural Complicities
School can take the place of the family milieubut it depends on which school, of course. Éva Thomassin, as we have seen, daughter of a rich family originally from Argentina, boarder at a Lausanne school frequented by royal children and heirs of great international fortunes, shows that these exceptional private schools replicate this relationship of complicity with the cultural universe. "We took a trip to Italy, from Milan to Naples; all of Italyvisiting museums. I will never forget that trip! The marvelous trains of that era, the paintings I saw in museums. We must have been very, very well escorted, to have succeeded in getting us to like Fra Angelicos at that point. . . Unforgettable! to the point that when I see a picture today, I immediately recognize it. The other day I said: Ah! that is a Filippo Lippi. You don't forget these things." This cultural training always has as a social dimension: it is a question of mastering the culture necessary to efficiently manage the social capital. "They prepared us to go into a salon and know how to converse intelligently, in a cultivated manner." In any case, what characterizes the schools favored by the great families resides in the complementary fashion with which they assure the transmission of all forms of capital: academic, cultural, and also social, symbolic and even physical, by the importance granted to the body and sports. In sum, a complete education for a complete person.
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"'I’ is, therefore, not a unified subject, a fixed identity, or that solid mass covered with layers of superficialities one has gradually to peel off before one can see its true face. ‘I' is, itself, infinite layers. Its complexity can hardly be conveyed through such typographic conventions as I, i, or I/i. (...) Whether I accept it or not, the natures of I, i, you, s/he, We, we, they, and wo/man constantly overlap. They all display a necessary ambivalence, for the line dividing I and Not-I, us and them, or him and her is not (cannot) always (be) as clear as we would like it to be. Despite our desperate, eternal attempt to separate, contain, and mend, categories always leak. Of all the layers that form the open (never finite) totality of ‘I’, which is to be filtered out as superfluous, fake, corrupt, and which is to be called pure, true, real, genuine, original, authentic? Which, indeed, since all interchange, revolving in an endless process?"
-Trinh T. Minh-ha (Woman, Native, Other: Writing, Postcoloniality, and Feminism)
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