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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2009-06-02 10:50 pm
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Cultural identity quiz

An interesting quiz, and I suppose that's about right.

Your result for The Cultural Identity Test...

The Kaffeeklatsch Savant

46% Traditionalism, 65% Knowledge, 64% Diversity, 45% Contemporary and 54% Untraditionalism!

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You Scored 45% Kaffeeklatsch Savant, Congratulations!

Hey there, Modern Thinker! At the forefront of your generation, you possess the uncanny ability to ride the waves of untraditionalism that course through our fickle society and remain at the crest! Ever aware of the changing tides of politics and philosophy, you have your own niche and you stick to it. With a healthy disdain for hypocrisy and pretense, you have the temerity to say so, and are well aware of the unpleasant facts that your contemporaries try to brush under the rug. Perhaps you're even something of a cynic!

Not into the latest headlines or 'ground breaking' news? Don't really care about that archaeological discovery in Tibet that suggests Cro-Magnons had twenty five teeth instead of twenty seven? You find other cultures interesting, but you most likely won't go out of your way to do anything about it. You know where you stand, and that's the bottom line. Well, you aren't alone, and you're actually in some pretty good company. Oscar Wilde, John Simon, Dorothy Parker and George Bernard Shaw were some of the great modern thinkers of their time, and they maintained their positions by steadfastly refusing to succumb to either the preposterous notions of the past or the rambling obsequiousness of trendy and idealistic fads of the day.

Less of an idealist and not so devoted to traditions, there's a good chance your idea of the world is your own and you don't necessarily care about what others think you should be thinking. The past? The future? This is the present, and no amount of planning for the future or lamenting the past will change that. So, you probably have a good idea of where you stand and what makes sense. And then again if nothing makes sense, it's ok, because it probably isn't that important anyways. Apathy towards current affairs can be a good thing often times. After all, are those vicissitudinous ideas the politicians spout all the time really that meaningful? They really just want your vote, and you aren't fooled by all the clever talk.

You were scored as a Modern Thinker because you most consistently chose answers relating to contemporary ideas. Concepts like race, tradition, history, and your heritage don't appear to have all that great an attraction for you, which is just fine, because most of those things don't seem to affect your day to day life. If you can get along without worrying about the traditional mating headgear of the Papu Papu tribe of Eastern Samoa, then that's just one less thing to worry about. And if you do care about such things, then you've managed to find the perfect blend between contemporary ideas and the enriching intellectualism that is so readily available to questing minds.

Take The Cultural Identity Test
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[identity profile] pet-lunatic.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Nice result! :) Interesting test.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
I liked it! It even picked my lack of interest in most current affairs.

[identity profile] pet-lunatic.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
:D I just did it and the result was pretty accurate. Good stuff!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
I came up as Liberal Philosophist which... doesn't seem me :)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not even sure what that is! I thought you'd be the Intellectual, like [livejournal.com profile] linda_joyce got.
ext_50187: (buggered if I know)

[identity profile] jomacmouse.livejournal.com 2009-06-04 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
That was my result too, which is both me and not me, but that's bound to be the result of differing definitions.

[identity profile] mistraltoes.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
I got the same as you.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Come round for a coffee, then! :-)

[identity profile] kalinda001.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting quiz. I came up the same as you.
kernezelda: (FS at rest)

[personal profile] kernezelda 2009-06-02 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a Kaffeeklatsch gal, too.

[identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, an interesting test. I got the same result as you. Except I *am* interested in that Cro-Magnon dig, damn it!

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I had to give up reading your result after I reached: Hey there, Modern Thinker! At the forefront of your generation, you possess the uncanny ability to ride the waves of untraditionalism that course through our fickle society and remain at the crest!

I couldn't stand reading any more. It might be accurate but the prose is terrible. I was also put off by the surfeit of exclamation marks. :)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
At least they can spell, except for the verb "preffering" which appeared twice in the quiz itself.

[identity profile] vjezkova.livejournal.com 2009-06-02 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow - I am a Liberal Philosopher but it was a ride! :-)

[identity profile] imhilien.livejournal.com 2009-06-03 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting quiz... I got the Intellectual. Hmm.