Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cohousing culture

[MD Reed (mdreed1919]

Wow Gerry, this is severe and why do you confine it to America?

In community,
Mary
--- Gerald Manata <gmanata2003 [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

>      Main stream American middle class culture is probably the most difficult
> culture on earth to marry with cohousing. Is there a cohousing community out
> there that, other than setting up the group mechancis of cohousing, actually
> operates on or has created a counter-or cohousing culture to replace the main
> stream middle class American culture many members come in with and continue
> to try to hold on to. In other words, has any group tried, objectively and
> pragmatically, to analyze and identify its values, ethics, morals, mores,
> customs, etiquette, folkways, formalities,lifestyles, etc., find a way to
> eliminate from people's lives/the community the interpersonal
> distance/coolness, personal greed and materialism, environmental
> distructiveness and poor diets, abusive childrearing practices, etc. of
> middle class America and replace them with a culture more in tune with
> community or village living still preserving Western democratic principals?
>     If so, can you discribe what you have created and how  you did it? 
> 
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