Another Exogroup
Jan. 6th, 2009 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI remembered another exogroup name: flatlanders (people who don't live in the mountains). I learned that term when I was doing research for my trip to Vermont. I was reminded of it while reading a book set in the mountains.
That book claims that flatlanders have their own name for people who do live in mountains: hillbillies. I've never thought of that term as applying to all mountain dwellers.
Journal entry of the day - How to cut out home heating oil--Japanese style from Sean Sakamoto, a guest of No Impact Man - take a little trip into another culture to see a civilized lifestyle with no central heating. "Because the rest of the house is freezing, the kotatsu gets a lot of action. It's the first place I go in the morning, and the last place I leave at night."
That book claims that flatlanders have their own name for people who do live in mountains: hillbillies. I've never thought of that term as applying to all mountain dwellers.
Journal entry of the day - How to cut out home heating oil--Japanese style from Sean Sakamoto, a guest of No Impact Man - take a little trip into another culture to see a civilized lifestyle with no central heating. "Because the rest of the house is freezing, the kotatsu gets a lot of action. It's the first place I go in the morning, and the last place I leave at night."