15 January 2017 - native culture

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Where I come from, skills are admired (“I can build a log cabin!”), but knowledge is looked down on (“you talk too fancy”). The ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind is not a sign of intelligence, it’s a sign of having absorbed your native culture.

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