Knowing a place’s character does not tell one how to act within it

Evidence

Thus, an individual may know about pool rooms, know who is to be found there, and so on, and still doubt his ability to fit in:

If I went to a pool room, I would feel uncomfortable cause I don’t know how I’m supposed to act or what I’m supposed to tell the guy at the desk and how I’m supposed to set up things and I would feel terribly uncomfortable. … So, too, every city dweller knows that there may be exceptions to his generalized understandings; that he may sometime go to a place that is something other than what he expected. To learn where to go, then, he must learn to judge how well he can handle the unanticipated.

— Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 626

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Interpretation fails unless it connects to the visitor’s own personality — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 141