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While at OSU last summer I participated in an Ethnographic Field School in Lakeview, Oregon (which I consider to be a fairly isolated rural community). We had homestays and lots of discussions about cultural divides and "ways of life". There were a lot of differences when discussing environmental issues, but what I realized is that we wanted to same thing (a sustainable way of life) but we used different language. They didn't like to use the word "environmentalist", but instead used "a good steward" of the land.

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