#Cultures

Tulog na ba ang mga ka-Pacific Islander? Dahil hindi mamatay-matay ang isyu na ito, gawan natin ng thread. (English ahead.) Are Filipinos Pacific Islander? NO. It's easy to mistake Pacific
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In my first year, I wouldn't speak in Hindi because I assumed that English would be more commonly understood. That was misconstrued as "attitude". I'd been here for all of
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I'm seeing discourse about racism within fantasy coding especially as it concerns Orcs and Tolkein's writing, so I want to signpost people to Lindsay Ellis' video essay on Why Bright
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my controversial question today is....do you, with confidence, know a south asian that isnt desi/indian? not southeast asian, but south asian. these are different groups. if you dont.....perhaps you should
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Here's why cultural appropriation is wrong and why it can happen to Filipino wear too since y'all want to invalidate anyone's concern for THEIR culturea thread by a Filipino:https://twitter.com/swallalisaa/status/127746326598390
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This is a thread about potential roles for commentators at conference talks.I would like to remind/emphasize to philosophers that offering objections is only one of the many interesting and valuable
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Native American Short Story: The Lord of the Flies Native kids get stranded on island. Ask the kid w/ glasses to use them to start fires. Eat well. Tell stories.
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What is "primitive"? Is it subjective? Is it colonialism? Often a technology that works & fits a social or economic need is branded by outside cultures as primitive, backward, archaic,
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I’m sure some of you have seen me hyping up the Stormlight Archive. Knowing that most of my followers haven’t read it, and knowing that many of them would love
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This whole ‘Jewish indigeneity’ rhetoric is going to fall like a house of cards, and it will probably happen sooner than later. To think that some of the more well
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There is no such thing as “objective translations”, but even if there was viz’ wouldn’t be an example. Their history of over Americanisation of texts aside, there have been clear
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Anecdotal but interesting book with stories from the internal work cultures & management principles @ tech giants.- Amazon- FB- Alphabet (Google)- Apple- Microsofthttps://www.amazon.in/Always-Day-One-Titans-Forever/dp/0593083482 Similar book on F
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Let’s talk about IQ tests: a threadI recently saw someone follow me and when I clicked on their page, their bio included their alleged IQ score. It was immediately repulsive
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since this isn’t the first time blackpink has been extremely insensitive towards other cultures and religions and my oomfs keep tweeting abt them, here’s a thread of the shit they’ve
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COMMONALITIES IN HINDU &MUSLIMOn the surface, it may seem that Islam and Hinduism have nothing in common.But that couldn’t be farther from the truth.In fact, there are rich similarities that
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The Prophet PBUH & Islam defend the right of women & children before anyone. The Prophet PBUH spoke out against racism, assault, fraud, etc., long before laws were passed on
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