I would also like to add that as far as the colonialism/racism aspect of it goes, I don't think being educated enough to just say "chai" has any impact at all on anything and white people who clearly think it does annoy me *more* than other white people YMMVhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1331127083796336641 …
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"I had a professor like that back when I was in graduate school She was very kind, she meant well, but it was very strange and unhealthy If you spend too much time around those people you'll end up feeling really bad about yourself"
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You know what I mean, the hunger for authenticity, this sort of aggressive hunger to be cooler and realer and more with it than anyone else You think you're not being a tourist - desperate not to be one - but you are, you're being a worse tourist
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Like I'm not pissed at white people who like Chinese food or artwork or language or whatever But if someone is, because of the legacy of colonialism, well that's their prerogative And you can't like earn your way out of it by accumulating cred
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The whole thing about this is that as languages go, English is very unusually accommodating In modern English it is surprisingly easy and common to drop in a word from another language with the "rules" attached to it mostly intact and just go ahead and use it
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Because English is an uninflected language based on word order Because it's a "world language" This fact is not really a demonstration that the Anglosphere is the most humble and self-effacing linguistic community in the world The opposite, that it's the most rapacious empire
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So I dunno, I have tremendously mixed feelings about the idea among hipster liberals that if they learn the language, if they learn the right words, if they pronounce everything properly that's some kind of absolution To me it almost feels like the opposite
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Who's more of a colonizer really, the white girl I knew from Pensacola who said "tortilla" with a hard L and blushed over her redneck past because of it, or some NY celebrity chef who says it perfectly and has made a fortune from "Mexican-inspired fusion cuisine"
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