It's pretty telling how consistent it is that when European settlers assimilated into Native communities they never expressed any interest in coming back but when the reverse occurred people tried to escape and return constantlyhttps://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1295440935157989377 …
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Yeah, when I was in line for a ride at Disneyland ten years ago this little kid behind me randomly asked me if I was a soldier and because I had nothing on to indicate me as military that really freaked me out
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Don’t discount the degree to which it is also about annihilating any concept of individual identity
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This is one of those facts I never realized but in hindsight is totally obvious.pic.twitter.com/fwclZHpfws
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Is the Manchu queue the inverse of this or a realization of it?
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The name of the Qing ("Pure") Dynasty comes from the way the Manchu conquerors justified themselves and their actions as purifying the corrupt and decadent Ming by putting the whole country under quasi-military discipline, and the queues were definitely a part of that
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