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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.


Alan Dundes  Alan Dundes
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Alan Dundes (September 8, 1934 – March 30, 2005)[1] was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline.[citation needed] He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more.[2] One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than the other senses.

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Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

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 Tags: Moment Present Moment Present Trouble
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

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Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

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 Tags: Past Try Trends Belong New Tease
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

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There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

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