On the flip side, actual under-represented minorities have to get less lazy too in telling their stories too, when given the chance. Self-essentializing intersectional tropes are part of the problem, not the solution. You’re a human being, not a baseball card. Act like it.
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Things that happened after 1492: - Galileo, Shakespeare born 1564, 72y later - Napoleon’s brother Joseph *retired* to New Jersey - The French Revolution was *after* American one Enough with the “young country” excuse. More a country living in its parents basement at age 40
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Though Hollywood’s attempts to increase the narrative bandwidth are often cringe, at least they’re trying. Real America™ actively resists any sort of variation on the official story. A communist party propaganda wing could only dream of engineering this kind of mind-closure.
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the multicultural "american" story seems too young, possibly even too small. most 0 gen immigrants kinda live in their own bubble of their home countries. and not all of the 1st gen pick up american culture.
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yeah, you're using the wrong measuring stick on this one. given history + pop distribution, we do have more black stories than any other non-white story out there. maybe there's a 2-3 gen lag?
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