People who take a strict binary view of culture (culture of privilege = awesome; culture of poverty = fail) are afflicted by the provincialism of privilege and thus vastly underestimate the dynamism of the greater world. They extoll middle-class values to the ignorance and exclusion of all others. To understand, you must imagine what it means to confront algebra in the morning and Shorty, can I see your bike? in the afternoon. Its very nice to talk about middle-class values when that describes your small, limited world. But when your grandmother lives in one hood and your coworkers live another, you generally need something more than middle-class values. You need to be bilingual.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:14:25 +0000
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