But speaking of Hillbilly, this is really just the same phenomenon someone like JD Vance might talk about. Coming from where he's from...
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he can speak to people of that "Hillbilly" culture he talks about in that book Hillbilly Elegy, and ALSO to the fancy lawyer set...
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Like, he's had to retain his knowledge of "hillbilly" and also pick up knowledge of "fancy lawyer." Whereas somebody who grew up...
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around fancy lawyers their whole life... they only really know a certain professional, upper-middle-class culture. That doesn't mean...
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they COULDN'T relate to JD Vance's "hillbilly" family. It just means that they'd probably have to learn and study and WORK to understand...
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all the rules of that culture. Well same goes for white folks and black folks. Most of y'all have never had to put in the effort...
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to try and understand black culture and black social norms and the rules of black culture(s). Whereas a lot of us have had to...
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learn white culture(s) to get along. And not just black folks who learn/work in "predominantly white institutions." All black folks...
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more or less, are taught by their parents SOMETHING about how to interact with white people, not "in general" or "as people,"
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but in the cultural specificity of white people.
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okay that's probably enough, sorry for the infinitely long twitter thread, let me know if you found that interesting/if you want to...
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ask any questions or rebut any of those points or whatever. I'll be at work but I'll try to respond.
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