HISTORY 142A Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Heyday Books, Frisbee, Chez Panisse
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10:33 pm: california is huge, has a huge population, lots of cultural diversity >impossible to define california through culture but people still try for this one state. Shorthand definition of california through culture: "american only more so" Why: location where people can realize deepest human yearnings. Place of opportunity (or disillusion and disappointment) Point: defining california means a challenge between imagined california vs. real california. Promoters always trying to attract new business, tourists, investments to california: california named for imaginary place. In the 1500s, people were describing a very like romantic version of this place. There were many facts that were incorrect in it (it was an island, there were black amazons with tons of gold there, etc. ) But then people who actually arrived there didn"t find this paradise and were disappointed. Only people who really saw it as a paradise were the indigenous pre-european contact.
