#Cultural

ways people are cultural appropriating the middle east/ arabs; a much needed thread starting off with the most popular one i think, non-arabs getting arabic tattoos. honestly this is one
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okay since tl has calming down, let me speak. it was too much for me earlier so i couldn’t voice out my opinions at all.i’m part of the lgbtq+ community
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reason i brought it up is because i saw this thread on rich brian (lmao of all things),, a western k-pop fan tried to dig out dirt to cancel him
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A couple of hacks that I developed for Writers With Drinks, the long-running spoken word show that I've been hosting forever:1) Ask every participant the pronunciation of their name. Even
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In advertising, speed is an asset.@VancityReynolds tokened the term “Fast-Vertising.”He uses “fast-vertising” to hack culture and create viral moments.The results are millions in earned media for Mint Mobile, Aviation Gin,
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Is there a proper term for this? For more cultural insights, shitposts and public access television in the 21st century, follow us on YouTube:http://youtube.com/718TV  We stream Wednesdays and Saturdays around
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Today I went to Sweny's, the little Pharmacy that was immortalized in James Joyce's Ulysses (where Leopold Bloom stoppes by to buy a bar of lemon soap) and I was
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If I was talking to an alternative version of myself rn – the one that stayed in Devon and took over the farm, I’d say: ‘Remember that whilst all the
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hard to overstate the impact the "zombie apocalypse" genre had on normalizing the idea of mowing down or driving through crowds of unarmed people as self-defense. remember how popular zombie
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Poly heads trying to replace legit STEM fields w pseudo science propaganda.Never confuse real science and the scientific method (question, test, confirm, optimize, repeat - my version) with the bs
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Neurodivergent folks who want to learn more about hidden meanings - tumblr is not a terribly reliable source, but you know what IS useful? Books by linguists! Linguists are often
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eminem - has made the shittiest most insensitive jokes ever and is really just a racist jason derulo - he just annoys me say sumn else other than your name
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The reason so many Hindutvadis are Atheists or not especially religious is because Hindutva has always been a form of ethnic nationalism, it's not a religious movement. It's why they
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More than one generation has grown up with Stallone as an inspirational figure, an everyman turned super hero. He has always been underestimated, a favorite target of the Razzies and
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*Imagines a novel set in 1942 Nazi Germany described as an ‘entertaining story of the Holocaust, skullduggery and revenge’*See now? Slavery is SO easily diminished....the way European horrors never are.
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Christians, please. I BEG. Do not use one verse from the Bible like it can contain the whole context of the chapter and book you took it from. My favorite
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