#Cultures

Omo, nobody is paying a bride price for my daughter sha. That tradition of paying bride price never made sense to me as a teenage boy. Today as an adult
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why i find fae pronouns harmful; a thread made by a practicing witch of 10 years so let’s start with the basics: what are the fae? the fae are beings
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something i've been thinking about when reading all these mulan reviews. it feels like the parts of the movie that just weren't as good come from trying to fit mulan
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filipino americans who call themselves pacific islander instead of southeast asian want to seem more exotic than being grouped together with other asians so they are choosing to appropriate another
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lrt is a fantastic thread about the different types of translation and how they relate to fandom and translating media from different cultures/languages also why you shouldn't get on someone's
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Somebody complained that the description of orcs in DND is uncomfortably close 2 the racist white narratives spun around other cultures and peoples that are targeted for imperial domination in
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Belle initiative,mais il faut aller au delà. Pour l'instant on a même pas besoin de replanter,tout juste laisser les espaces en jachère et la nature fera le reste. L'effort se
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Comparison between #Arab and #Chinese Cultures: A Brief Thread When thinking about Arabia and China, the normal individual would not make any connection between the two cultures, but you would
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I want to say a few things. The whole “natice influencer” narrative. I think it’s really dangerous and so harmful for those in our community to exploit their identities and
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One of the things I have always thought about in relation to how cultures enable advancement and innovation that lead to wealth is how the African, the native Americas and
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I think it’s important to remember, no you don’t need to know everything about Korean culture in order to stan a Korean group but you should keep in mind they
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Both the "shutdowns are unnecessary" crowd & the "we'd have no coronavirus without Trump" crowd pay far too little attention to how hard the virus has hit a broad variety
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Capitalism's purpose is not to create jobs; in fact, capitalists areconstantly devising ways of eliminating jobs in order to cut labour costs. Nor is its purpose to build communities, for
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Culture can evolve rapidly, much faster than genes. Due to this, cultural changes can create new environments that in turn shape our genes. This is called “culture-gene coevolution” & there
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Christians will perform incantations on wafers and grape juice, turn them to the body and blood of a dead man who supposedly rose again, and has been promising them to
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Late night musing: growing up Asian was the worst preparation for being a creative. Self-promotion, individualized goals, lack of career stability...these creative career characteristics are things that are discouraged in
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