The label of radical is both a value judgment and a reduction of the right for individuals in a culture to take that position. Most cultural movements occur because “some radicals” wanted something and fought long enough and hard enough to convince an otherwise ambivalent and apathetic majority to accept it.

Read the rest of this thread. TL;DR: Some cultures may not want you to bridge that gap, and a dominant culture redefining things that they can’t translate to bridge that gap is a surprisingly major problem over time.

Language is for communication (or recording, but that gets complex)... but today we interpret that to mean universal communication because we grew up in an egalitarian, deeply-connected world. Not every language was meant to be understood by all. Some languages appear to be specifically designed to not be shared…

I notice that you specifically avoided both the base statement and the immediate example following that which clarified how this differs from cultural diffusion. Interpretatio Christiana wasn’t just cultural diffusion, it was a deliberate attempt to subvert another culture by reinterpretation. That’s the key…

It works very well and is a known and well documented set of problems sometimes defined by linguistic anthropologists, historians, and sociologists as language oppression.

Historically? Not really. Linguistic anthropology is rife with examples that demonstrate that when two cultures meet with different languages, it’s never without lasting impact and rarely an even exchange. We teach our children that all sharing is good, but historians have known for millenia that cultural warfare is…

So, a key concept in corporate cases vs personal cases is what a character attack looks like. Most of us have seen enough court dramas to recognize what a lawyer does to attack an individual’s character: Show lack of morals, deceit, hypocrisy, or bigotry. All of this is used to show how a witness may be untrustworthy,…

I mean yes, combined with having virtually no competition offering a bevy of unique titles via a digital platform. So, since Epic is facing the same th--waaaaaait...

I actually partially disagree here. I want more POC, LGBT, especially women of color as protagonists... But Returnal actually has something rarer than almost all of those things: A middle-aged woman protagonist. That's one of the rarest choices in all of media but especially in games. Boiling that down to just "cis…

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So, buckle up. This is a fascinating topic. Japanese laws on prostitution have three primary loopholes which you’ll spot very quickly. Let me summarize the relevant law:

Look... No. This is the kind of stuff that makes educators lose sleep at night over how we teach STEM subjects without enough liberal arts. Technology is not the answer to sociological issues. You can't build a better mousetrap without expecting society to build a better mouse. There is no app, no plugin, no filter…

Ironic considering that Boston is known for being an incredibly racist city... Then again, that's usually for brown folks. East Asians probably do find it more comfortable.

In this situation what Epic is trying to do is demonstrate that Apple’s app development/oversight and hardware development are indelibly linked. Apple has argued that it isn’t operating anticompetitively by saying that apps are one branch of its business and the hardware is a separate one. Epic is using this as a way…

If you think my suggestion seems too unsubstantive, I don’t think you’ve read enough about Amazon’s control over its employees. This is a company that has released documentaries on how they hit 2 day shipping by geo-tracking the exact paths their employees take and recording their pick order at every shelf. This is a…

That was my thought at first, until I noticed why the NLRB refused them a drop-off point and how this box was unmarked. In light of those, the situation may be inverted: Dropping off a “no” vote to this box might be interpreted as a loyalty check in front of an employer who is known for hypersurveillance and may have…

So, my biggest issue with this is a more subtle one. I’m a big proponent of anthropological research on the impact of technology like Langdon Winner’s “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Technologies like this are neither created in a vacuum, nor do they operate in a vacuum. They carry within them ideas and their acceptance…

A few things here:

And that gets into the complicated topic of how our cultural identity is neither a purely self-determined, nor a purely externally-determined identity. We are who and what we are as much because of how others perceive us as how we perceive ourselves.

Nobody automatically assumed anything here. Meghan has described herself as Black and has the heritage and upbringing to make it something rooted in lived experiences. The fact that she had a White father or inherited the ability to "pass" does not change that one whit.