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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The version of past me that was FURIOUS at my mom, that thought I could DIE, from hearing her mispronounce "La Jolla" or "Sudoku" or whatever, is I think the same part that thought my friend was cringey when she said stuff in a thick white Southern accent, and I'm not proud of it
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I guess I'll fall back here on the old Stuff White People Like blog and say that in a lot of ways the "whitest" white people are the ones who feel a deep cultural cringe toward "ignorant rednecks" and shit, who carefully cultivate the most flexible, cosmopolitan dialect they can
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These stories are always interesting. My half Japanese ex who was the only Asian in Ohio suburbs had lots of them.
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