Weird how it never struck me until seeing those Canada tweets I just RTed just how strikingly centralized the American cultural imagination is. Even within the majority White+Christian, “All-American” seems to pick out a single archetype (small town football star?) not a spread
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Humans reduce a problem to a level that is easy to understand. A single identity is always an easily digestible model than one of pluralism which seems like a amalgamation of many.
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I don’t think that’s true. People easily keep track of vast pluralist fictional universes like lord of the rings :) The key is to live a story together
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The egalitarian propaganda machine needs updating. https://youtu.be/-jf6pwtPqCs
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Proposing "Mile meme mera tumhara to meme bane hamara" ;)
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American mass culture is centralized in Hollywood and New York, which makes reliance on stereotypes and stories placed "nowhere" (generic suburbia, generic city) almost inevitable. Reality, though, is very, very different.
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