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New Yorkers will spend hours talking about how unique and special bodegas like other cities dont have grocery stores

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    the whole idea of there having to be a single “capital” of culture or science is euro shit, steeped in colonialism and the need to maintain cultural hegemony. The global south is home to thousands of cultures, more vibrant and alive than lmayos can even imagine, and they all have their centers and reference points, that are looking to the West less and less, as of late.

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        the british museum, housed in the capital of complaining so much about rain when if you go by the data and compare london to other cities it doesn’t actually rain all that much there