cultural identity
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To become white, you have to throw things out of your life or make them insignificant, like the things that make you Irish or French. To become Jewish, you must add things to your...
Minimalism and why it isn't good for a civilization in the long run. A short thread🧵 It started in the 1960s and has led us from.... this...
Why is everywhere in America starting to lose its identity? It's mostly because of one thing — scale... (thread) 🧵 https://t.co/SGbWcDNMOs
WASPs were right in their estimation of Italians, and the myth of 'Italian integration' was an invention meant to convince people to let in waves of even worse immigrants. At least...
The EBU now need to explain themselves. The people of Europe have spoken. Why did the EBU let a Middle Eastern country into the competition? https://t.co/k9q5oSALSp
Arabs are not categorized as brown, white, green, or any other color. Arabs are Arabs. They’re the most inherently diverse race, representing a spectrum of skin tones from white an...
As an Axomiya, I feel appalled by the statement by @KapilSibal on #Axom. What he said is as true as Bharat being a part of Iran after Nadir Shah invaded Delhi. Samudragupta's pilla...
"Is there any reason to feel too shy to wear hijab or niqab? Can we approve of the situation in which those who commit sin do so openly and audaciously, whereas those who seek to o...
Many people ask, what's the point of learning history? What's the use of learning Our past? Many people question, what's the need to know all of that? How does a Raja Raja Chola...
Tell me how I am this grown, and whenever I go see my mom, she still makes me get covered up in the heat from some herbs, drink, and bath with many. It's whatever to you, but to h...
Ahbāsh are quite fitting of the Ash‘arī label. You make it seem like we are supposed to be upset when they takfīr us :( Those who takfīr you, which you think are Ahlu-Sunnah, ar...
Sunnis in Muharram A Thread 🧵 : 1 ; They'll share a Video of "qama and zanjeer zani" with the caption of "Khuda ki qasam yeh mere Nabi (saw) ka deen nahin.
Simple fact is this Bandhu : The moment Sikh Panth broke its fundamental ties with sanatan vaidik Hindu dharma, it was marked for oblivion by the gods and powers that be. Xiani...
"actually Primos is about Mexican immigrants in California who might not know the language well or developed different ways of speaking. Mexicans misunderstood that & attacked it!"...
It shocks me to see parents encouraging their children to speak only in english and not in their mother tongue(MT). They take it as a matter of pride to see their kids speaking eng...
RJ Sayema or Arfa Khanum or other influential politically active Muslim women in India do not wear Hijab themselves but support school girls wearing it because - choice. Problem is...
Just curious, what's there to brag about that you don't understand your language? The English language you are bragging about is another country's language. French, Chinese, Mand...
The term 'trans' does not apply to Indian Hijras. Many of them are born intersex, and a lot more got into the community via forced addiction, abduction, sexual abuse and later forc...
Kerala woman who left home and converted to Islam, now 'returns' to Hinduism *When 23-year-old Athira-a Hindu woman frm Kerala's Kasargod district-spoke to media in July,she was cl...
With wife sleeping off high altitude headache, I went to the pool. Gringo started small talk. "Where are you from?" "New York." "Before that?" "Pennsylvania" "Before that?" "...
Urdu and Hindi are in fact one language. Partitioned by right wingers of both religion with sanghis injecting a lot of Sanskrit and wahhabi types injecting a lot of Arabic/Persia...
Heh, one frustu uncle in a WhatsApp group randomly scolded a young woman, "Stop calling it eggplant. This is India. Call it brinjal. 😡" It's like these dudes are looking for the ti...
This 🧵 is about one of my oldest friends, who I've admired for literal decades, and who is Sudanese. I met her in Cairo, a million years ago when I was desperate to *not* live in...
1) Spoke to an educated & Indic audience of approx. 30 on Indian history Topic - 5 heroes that’ll dispel the myth that we were slaves for 1000 years & our heroes were the resistan...
