Working class local cultural pride (around local street food, Cheers type bars, local “characters”, sports teams…) is something I’ll never truly grok. 🤔
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Am way too rootless gentrifier bougie. I’ll eat those “best tacos in the world” etc but I can’t bring myself to actually care about any of it or be bothered if a big corporate retailer steamrolls over a “beloved local joint”
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I’m sort of taste-blind to the last 20% of claimed local uniqueness which is where all identity lives. I’m the ideal customer for the generic that delivers 80% of the experience at 20% of the effort and 0% of the local-culture derp.
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Ie I’m the ideal trader joe customer
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Terrible deal. The one time I chatted with a bartender I was bored to death. I’d need more than free beer to do it.
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I don't really have this feeling, but I'm glad others do. Keeps places unique enough to make vacation travel worthwhile.
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Some people need to borrow a sense of identity from such incidentals.
They can't move on from such things because they scarcely exist apart from these things.
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Think of it this way, it's sort of like affiliation with Internet subcultures, except not on the computer.
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