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so let me get this straight: -soccer counts as brazilian/argentine culture, basketball counts as serbian/lithuanian culture, hockey counts as canadian/swedish/finnish culture, rugby counts as NZ/UK culture, but baseball and american football and college sports/march madness cannot POSSIBLY count as american culture? -afternoon tea is british culture, masala chai is indian culture, espresso is italian culture, turkish tea/coffee is turkish culture, but iced coffee (and sweet tea down south) doesn’t count as american culture? -telenovelas are part of latino cultures, bollywood is part of indian culture, but hollywood cannot count as american culture? -kpop is korean culture, jpop is japanese culture, but boy bands (which literally originated in the US) don’t count as american culture? -wine is part of italian/french culture, beer is part of czech culture, vodka is part of russian/polish culture, but cocktails and soeakeasies aren’t american culture? -kilts are scottish culture, saris are indian culture, but blue jeans and cowboy boots don’t count as being american culture? -italy can be respected for having varying regional cuisines throughout the country EVEN IF 85% of it is just different variations of PASTA but the fact that louisiana cajun and creole food is entirely distinct from NE lobster rolls and tex-mex and jersey italian american cuisine and southern biscuits and gravy etc still doesn’t count as america having regional cuisine ? -maori history counts for NZ, aboriginal history counts for australia, but native american history doesn’t count for the US? -quinceañeras are latin american culture but sweet 16s aren’t american culture? i could go on for ages but this is already too long for twitter. i’m tired of this conversation! EVERYWHERE HAS CULTURE! even if you don’t like it!

The top panel depicts a group of women wearing hijab. The bottom panel depicts the same or similar women in private settings without hijab. In the bottom panel, the women are differentiated. They have distinct hairstyles, expressions, postures, personalities, and social relations. They appear as individuals with an inner life. The reader is invited to see them as complex human beings. Nothing in the image visually distinguishes morality police from ordinary veiled women. The representational function is carried by the veil itself. the top panel are denied the very thing the women in the bottom panel possess: a visible inner life. Their subjectivity becomes inaccessible until the veil is removed. reproducing a familiar Orientalist assumption the Muslim woman becomes fully intelligible as a human subject only when she is separated from the symbols and practices associated with Islamic public life.

“Due to Trisomy 21” He wants you to mishear that as Trisomy 13, or otherwise assume this was some rare terminal illness Down syndrome. He’s talking about Down syndrome.

This feels like a tight 12-nation Europe imo