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Originally Posted by GlassCity
I grew up in Richmond, and you honestly feel like you're being excluded from your own city
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to be ideologically pure (but un-pragmatically honest) about things, the proper rejoinder would be "you are. and there is no problem with that."
feeling excluded on the basis of language (and/or culture, by extension) represents an attachment to
non-essential things that is ultimately related to the sort of ethno-cultural "centrism" that creates pre-modern orders, with all of their unpleasant particularities and outgrowths.
essentially, people are moving to richmond from other countries because they are seeking opportunity (an
essential thing) and because it is good for the economy (an
essential thing).
it is good for the economy because most western countries have low birth rates, which are themselves the outgrowth of individual-centric sexual and reproductive practices (an
essential thing).
ideally, the proper reaction would be to recognize your exclusion as an inevitable outgrowth of
essential things and adapt to it by either learning the language in question or migrating to another area.
this process, as a whole, represents the
evolution of your culture and region (
an essential, or at least unavoidable, thing) and as such must be entered into with goodwill.
i mean, nobody actually lives like this, but that's probably because we're just not up to speed yet.
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