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mensetmanusman on April 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patina and Intimacy

A WASPy criticism seems to imply that it’s bad to write about one’s own culture unless one first acknowledge all the cultures of the world.

tomc1985 on April 10, 2022 [–]

It's bad in the sense that it is unoriginal, trite, and predictable. It is essentially advocating for a populist status quo.

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