Cross-wired cultures
The spillover from one background to another is sometimes manifested in the odd details supplied by my children in our cross-cultural household. This morning, son number two headed off to write his entry examination at a local CEGEP. After a return delayed by the family taxi which went missing in action (note to self, place a road map or a GPS in the next vehicle), the obvious question was about the difficulty of the exam session. The response “A bit like a Fun With Dick And Jane reader” caught me off-guard. Except for the briefest of contact with a reprinted copy at my sister’s earlier this month, there is no way in any context that he’s had the intense pleasure of reading that particular work of literary history.
Is this an example of inheritance of culture? If so, time to try for something a bit richer in the next offering.
