@Absinthe

If you go out to the really remote areas you might even still find them wearing full dutch Garb. I haven't seen it personally myself but I do hear it exists still, just gotta find the remote farmer somewhere.

@Surasanji

@freemo @Surasanji not sure what that might look like, but I guess it could be interesting

@Absinthe @freemo You can usually find people who are way into past eras of their culture. All along the east coast there are people who role play the lives of colonial peoples.

@Surasanji

True but im not sure these people are role playing or into their past. I just think they are so isolated that it seems more normal and thus just a normal part of their modern day culture.

@Absinthe

@freemo @Absinthe I suppose there are those isolated communities that just decide not to change for whatever reason. You see that in the US, too, but the US is so much larger than the Netherlands that I find it harder to understand how someone could remain so isolated in a country that is front and center in the European Union.

@freemo @Absinthe Like, I think it would be by choice, not by simple isolation is what I mean.

@Surasanji @freemo Maybe it is just better that way. The old ways being preferable. We certainly have our Amish communities here.

@Absinthe @freemo There have always been people who choose to live away from society, or choose to live a simpler life. There always will be.

Some people are just happier with a simpler life, and I can understand that. I love electricity and the internet, however, so until I figure out a way (or have the money) to live out in the middle of nowhere with my own electricity generation and my own internet connection I probably won't be spending more than a couple of weeks out in "The Nature"./

@Surasanji

Keep in mind "isolated" is a very relative term. Int he netherlands these isolated people still wearing dutch garb almost certainly have electricity, running water, and can probably even walk to their nearest bus stop still (though their walk might be a bit longer than most).

@Absinthe

@Surasanji

culture is a weird thing, ive dealt with modeling it a lot in the past and it doesnt follow any natural rules that you might intuitively expect.

Youd expect culture to spread as fast as any other idea, but it doesn't. In fact culture is very resistant to spreading in the real world. In fact it only spreads when it reaches a critical mass over short periods of time usually.

So to bring this back to what we are saying, for cultures to be preserved we usually find that we dont need strong isolation, just a sort of information bottleneck is enough to do it since the influx of new culture will therefore remain below the needed threshold to trigger a conversion.

@Absinthe

@Surasanji @freemo I know, I have seen it. Love the different living history museums. I just don't think I have seen "Dutch"

@Absinthe @freemo There's a youtube channel I love that does like 17th Century cooking. It's amazing.

@Absinthe @freemo James Townsend and Sons, I think is the name.