A Culture of Copying Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers. Like file-sharing, cutting and pasting from the Internet is just one part of a broader shift toward all copying, all the time. By John Leland. [New York Times: Technology] This article pulls together many of the issues of use of technology by today's young people into what it calls a "culture of copying." From the article: "In the culture of copying, technological considerations have trumped ethical ones: if you upload it, they will download." This makes me want to talk more with my students about these issues, not shaking my finger at them and saying "naughty, naughty," but more in the way I attempt to understand any of the cultures my international students come from. "International Citizens" is one of our main goals at my school, and I see more and more that beyond each student's country and family culture are some other cultures that have grown up in the whole world around and because of the technologies that have been developed in my lifetime. Is anyone out there talking about this? I'd like to get in on the conversation, not just to identify the phenomenon, as this article does, but to discuss how to deal with the "culture shock" of my generation, and how to address ethical issues with the next generation. 10:27:49 AM     [comment []];[]