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for those asking Guess culture is the use of telepathy to communicate efficiently Ask culture people are unable to do this and resort to cumbersome explicit word salad which is crass to Guessers, but relatively open to outsidershttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/340891/ …
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im personally a guess culture supremacist but it does require a certain cultural homogeneity to work and is fairly unfriendly to outsiders who dont know how to V I B E i dont think the quoted thread is crazy
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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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I also really... don't know how I feel about the stated premise of "white people = guessers, PoC = askers" because in my experience there are a lot of Asian countries (most notably Japan prob) where the guess culture is amped up a significant amount
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My personal take is that vibing with other guessers is sick, but having the capability to ask when push comes to shove is refreshing, and ultimately we would all be happier if the guessers would respect and try to understand the askers and vice versa /shrug
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no I agree with all of this--had specifically not meant to imply that Guess culture is exclusively white. Japanese culture is often held up as a canonical example although I have no special knowledge there
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I think being able to context switch ask/guess mode is challenging for people of either background, and getting it down is an important skill for basic functioning in any public space.
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