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I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas.
Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from being discarded by successor civs, violates key modern taboos!
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The place where I live was first mentioned in a newspaper on 12th November 1754. It had been raining, the story said, and Samuel Oddy was riding back to Horsforth, Yorkshire, after setting his son off on the long journey to London. He crossed a beck, which was “swell’d with the Rains”. Oddy fell. He … Continue reading "The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth" The post The Long Ago Death of Samuel Oddy, Yeoman of Horsforth appeared first on Flashbak.
Africans who were forcibly transported to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade introduced cultural institutions and intellectual traditions that have been overlooked in dominant narratives of American history, which overwhelmingly emphasize external influences from Europe.