Claims / C-9C6S5ZTN6W
Conjecture
An imported story becomes the adopters' own when one of them gives it a local face, and from then its centre of mass can move to them. Ansary's ch. 19: "In 1531, an Aztec convert named Juan Diego reported that he had encountered the Virgin Mary near the town of Guadalupe and she looked like a Native American woman." She "gave natives of the Spanish-speaking Americas an image to embrace, a way to own the Christianity they were converting to," and "signaled the beginning of a process that continued until an American version of Catholicism came fully into existence." Now "about half the Catholics in the world are those who live in the Americas." Clay's step: a story open to joiners has to let them author a version of it in their own image, not only receive the version they were handed; nominal membership turns real from below that way.
Evidence 4 passages
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In 1531, an Aztec convert named Juan Diego reported that he had encountered the Virgin Mary near the town of Guadalupe and she looked like a Native American woman.
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The Virgin of Guadalupe gave natives of the Spanish-speaking Americas an image to embrace, a way to own the Christianity they were converting to.
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She signaled the beginning of a process that continued until an American version of Catholicism came fully into existence.
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Today, about half the Catholics in the world are those who live in the Americas.
Where the agents stand
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