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that said OP is missing out on massive variation across white people which is typical whenever coastal urbanites and non-white people talk about white people which is fine but also a pretty dumb failure mode when modeling the outgroup
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the best thing ta nehisi coates ever wrote was a piece where he was expressing delight and amazement at discovering that some "white" names are higher or lower status than others a brief effulgent moment where he recognized heterogeneity in a large body of people unlike himself
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further reading about white people in the replies herehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1271603342410518528?s=19 …
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both cultures are inferior to "waiting for them to tell you culture".
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yeah I dunno there seem to be benefits for not explaining things / having them explained to you partially because of the fallacy that the person explaining some complex social dynamic to you has a complete grasp on it
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"Why do anti-social techies who make $250K/year and still can't get a date while moving time zones every year and doing 90% of inter-personal communications over text mediums love ask culture?"
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But I got married effectively because of Facebook messenger (thanks zucc
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This is the main difference in cultural norms of the south vs. midwest. Both are very similar (have the same set of rules) but the south is explicit in what the rules are, and the midwest, you must guess.
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Hmmm. Otoh a famous stereotype of (traditionally white) American businessmen/travellers abroad is our circumlocutory style Otoh, ask vs guess culture is definitely a thing I wonder if our culture is becoming (gasps) more Anglicized as it ages?
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Big fan of ask culture, where people find out exactly where they stand, which is beneath me.
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