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"You know You're from Upstate New York if ..."
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Voices
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April 1, 2005
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We all know them-the jokes and anecdotes and sayings that get passed around the office, printed out on a copier for anyone to see. They may come as a poem, a cartoon, a spoof memo, a doctored photograph, or a list. Often they contain ethnic or racial stereotypes, political satire, or blatant sexuality. They can be downright raunchy.
Called "xeroxlore" in the 1970s by the prominent folklore scholar Alan Dundes, such materials have forced us to rethink the old definitions of folklore: those expressions that are traditional in form and content, have often been passed down for generations, are shared within a community, and are circulated orally in face-to-face encounters. Instead, the ...