Do you understand what a parable is? Because that’s what you get when you take a short, specific set of events in a potentially fictional scenario and use it to tell a story that casts characters in specific moral roles. The nature of a parable is that, whether you mean for it to be or not, it is instructive.

Tell me you don't understand cultural appropriation without telling me you don't understand cultural appropriation.

So let me recap this for you as succinctly as I can:

Not really, but I love that you tried.

The right to refuse to share aspects of your culture with the descendants of the people who actively worked to destroy it is a pretty understandable position, but go off sis.

Nobody says that just because you are not welcome to learn a language that it means no language exists for communication between you and those parties. As I mentioned in the thread, many indigenous peoples who ask to be left culturally isolate learn outside languages specifically so that a way to communicate is…

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.

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…