It's often the case that you can't understand a thing well purely by accumulating knowledge about it -- you need the context that's provided by knowing *other* things as well.
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And you can't understand English well if you only know English. You're also going to need French, Latin, etc. Context is everything
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Every pundit on this site seems to assume that everything about US culture is somehow unique and can only be understood in a narrow local & ahistorical context... While also believing that things that are completely unique to the US must be inevitable & intrinsic to human nature
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Fundamental Attribution Error?
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context example: Australia underwent white settlement because US war of independence meant Britain couldn’t dump their criminals in the US any longer.
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