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handle is hein.amenin/aeiacxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points The culture of partk:u -paces, Mtn deve.i, pec and east into iitttOfi tOrrn CIurfng her founding period, aoe Is teir ecr orrny in inportart and unders-udied ways Case studies sg etseeac ltr tra;its can potent1a11/h-elp plac,-es be -nore ecconorn- i successi o,,ver tie Ionf trm: (-) oper cv netwovrks, which epaces bette: adapt, o chang c1(2)inves t me tin cvi ea deship and it: titutior bj idinig by loca: elit and (3) an emphasis on rdoand rew rding e,ceilenc. SCic t is ditficuit to change. Doing so :qr fitst a cquirng a deep understanng oF i arid e focusing o.' the most addressabie axn for change, such as i:rncubatii:g new reanps and :conne,tio-s betveen different actors in tine torlninity, 'lin role of connunity cilture in pover ' has been widely debated, but the role of te cultre ofa place in economic dyn.ainisai and success has received less pl.i atrtention, I D. Vanx's memoir Uiiib:h Elgy provides an example of cult re in the forner Illbilliesl earn :t rn an early age t, deal vith uncomfortable truths by avoiding then-,, or pretending beter truils exist. This tendenccy night make for psychological resiience, but u also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at rhemUselves lhonestly, We tend to overstate au.-edto understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad ni our- selves.... TIhe truthi is hard, an the h.ards r ruths for hill people are the ones they must tel,, about thsnelves Vance observes the behavior of his hilibilly tribe in actmon while work'.g inz a tie warehouse: Thae problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far decper than macroeconomic trends and policy. Too nany young mcmr In..mune so hard w.ork, Good jobs impossible to fill fir anly lengd or time. And a young man with every reason to work- a wx ifeto-be to supiport and a baby on the way---- carelessly tossing aside a good job wit'x'etlem health. insurance. More troublihagsy, when it was all over, he tou.ight somet-hing had been done to Win. There is a lack of agency here e----- el- ing that you bhav e li tle control over ,1onr life and a villingn ss to blame everyone but your- self, 'This is disrinct fron ..b.te larger conoric landscape of niodern Ame'rica,' Vance perceives that hillbilies' culture produces so:cial and ecom ic dYsfimrtion. Tiis culture resides in the people. ppalachian places pervasively exhibit ::i Y i: :4,.i.</:: :: ii. ii:

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