And needing to stop thinking in western terms abt liberalism & individualism being better & consider it.
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1/ Lemme suggest in a minor tweetstorm that you see this dynamic in big cities vs smaller cities in the US.
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2/ One of the things that gets you about the Midwest coming from say LA are the jerseys. On weekends everyone wears them.
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3/ What the coasts don't get about football is that it isn't a sport but a community identity. But way deeper than football...
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4/ In the city I live in, nearly the whole town seems to converge every week in the capital square.
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5/ It would be logistically impossible in a larger city.
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6/ Nevertheless these dumb events -- farmer's markets, 5ks, charity runs, whatever -- aren't what NYC thinks of as "culture"
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7/ It's community but not culture. Big cities define culture as what smaller communities don't have (arts, fashion, opera, etc)
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8/ And in big cities you get this individualistic sense of self-expression that replaces small town collectivism.
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9/ In short the "individualism" of the West might be an intellectual dream with less grounding in reality than we think. Fin!
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Wow! I will peruse this tomorrow. Am having to go offline now!
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