I guess part of this is my own lived experience of being corrected on language shit is having it directed against me pretty often and bristling about it in general
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MudDude4
Like, my immigrant parents were pretty bad about correctly pronouncing stuff from other languages - *not* just "white people" languages, any other language - and growing up I felt a lot of cultural cringe over that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MudDude4
You get the same cringe factor if your parents grew up in some rural midwestern tiny town and then decided kids would have more better opportunities if they moved to a big eastern city.
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Replying to @OtterHale @MudDude4
The thing I've actually had a lot of difficulty admitting is that while there are huge, major differences that matter a lot, there are also ways in which my life and the life of someone from a redneck family who went to a fancy college aren't THAT different
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There are definite crossover similarities
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I mean don't get me wrong I hated growing up among conservative provincial religious white people I'm still mad about it today I was fucking FURIOUS about it after Trump won the election I don't actually forgive any of the people who were assholes to me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @thedogshala and
But I remember going to a fancy college thinking it was an escape, that I'd be among "my people" ("Dream of ivy covered walls and smoky French cafes", as Veronica says in Heathers) By which deep down I really meant cosmopolitan, bourgeois white people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @thedogshala and
And learning that these people were, in fact, NOT my people was a pretty bitter fucking pill to swallow As was learning that the cosmopolitan, bourgeois Chinese-Americans weren't really my people either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @thedogshala and
And the frustration of knowing that however I perfected my English - the elevated form of English, not the redneck kind, the kind that smoothly peppers in French and Italian and Latin and Japanese loanwords, to signal that you're a citizen of the world - it wouldn't work
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... wouldn't work bc you're Asian?
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