this is really fantastic. thank you so much for sharing this. definitely lots to unpack! i always love the "both sides" argument when the battle is between 'cultural appropriation accusations' VS 'ethnically cleansing the country by finding out who is pure or not' - to me; one is way scarier than the other... this is a great write up of this book though, i may have to read it. one critique even without reading the book; if the author is indeed from 2 politically powerful families in both countries, class/money/power can negate a lot of identity struggles and some of these struggles will seem very foreign/absurd to him. and not everyone has to struggle or suffer to "get it" - whatever that means, but i feel like having a lot of class/money/power can sometimes be a barrier between empathy. i do like what the author said about a 'western' identity; that doesn't hold up much weight in reality; like america being a 'christian' nation- which form of christianity? once again... thank you so much for writing all this up. i did a little write up about the war on identity after a lovely chat with my cousin... i hope you like it... cheers... https://open.substack.com/pub/robbydarling/p/intersectionality?r=12wdb2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I've been a little wary of this series, potentially too challenging for a lazy gal who likes to dig in the garden, play with the grandkids, and read novels, but the opening paragraph to this one lured me right in.
this is really fantastic. thank you so much for sharing this. definitely lots to unpack! i always love the "both sides" argument when the battle is between 'cultural appropriation accusations' VS 'ethnically cleansing the country by finding out who is pure or not' - to me; one is way scarier than the other... this is a great write up of this book though, i may have to read it. one critique even without reading the book; if the author is indeed from 2 politically powerful families in both countries, class/money/power can negate a lot of identity struggles and some of these struggles will seem very foreign/absurd to him. and not everyone has to struggle or suffer to "get it" - whatever that means, but i feel like having a lot of class/money/power can sometimes be a barrier between empathy. i do like what the author said about a 'western' identity; that doesn't hold up much weight in reality; like america being a 'christian' nation- which form of christianity? once again... thank you so much for writing all this up. i did a little write up about the war on identity after a lovely chat with my cousin... i hope you like it... cheers... https://open.substack.com/pub/robbydarling/p/intersectionality?r=12wdb2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I've been a little wary of this series, potentially too challenging for a lazy gal who likes to dig in the garden, play with the grandkids, and read novels, but the opening paragraph to this one lured me right in.