What racism+sexism looks like in the classroom: English male student with a smug grin telling me he hadn’t read the prescribed book because “he gave it 60%, wasn’t feeling it, and read the ‘better’ book.” The book in question? A Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez!
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palomar drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth imho
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oh huh that seems likely i just liked it more as a read :)
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Colombian. Borges is Argentine.
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It's only 4.1/5 on Goodreads, can't be that great
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The best part of the book is the literally movement it spawned in reaction. "I'm sick of the writing about stereotypical 'exotic' latinos, I want to write about normal latinos who live in cities and eat at McDonalds!"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McOndo
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