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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by netr0ute on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:29AM (#35469699)
What's the definition of high culture?
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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by carapace on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:40AM (#35469915)
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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by ghaff on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:01PM (#35470322)
Not really. Both Shakespeare and Dickens were pretty mainstream culture at the time.
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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by orangepurple on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:44AM (#35469999)
High culture is exactly equal to "surrogate activities" defined in this document: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by nitwit005 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:54AM (#35470186)
It means the culture of the upper class.

It's also one of those phrases where people insist that's not what it means. You can see this bizzare battle playing out on its wikipedia page:

> In popular usage, the term high culture identifies the culture either of the upper class (an aristocracy) or of a status class (the intelligentsia); high culture also identifies a society’s common repository of broad-range knowledge and tradition (folk culture) that transcends the social-class system of the society.

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