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... culture is the direct result of " human " actions . In patriarchy , events and situations are caused by those who have the social , economic , and political power to make them happen : men . In the u.s. , it is white men who have the ...
... culture is the direct result of " human " actions . In patriarchy , events and situations are caused by those who have the social , economic , and political power to make them happen : men . In the u.s. , it is white men who have the ...
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... culture we live in determines , to a large extent , how we categorize the world and understand the things we perceive because it is culture that pro- vides the vocabulary from which we choose our words , including the infor- mation ...
... culture we live in determines , to a large extent , how we categorize the world and understand the things we perceive because it is culture that pro- vides the vocabulary from which we choose our words , including the infor- mation ...
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... culture as bad , immoral , or terrible , and they allow us to distance ourselves conceptually from " them . " We forget that we are " they . " ' To gauge the degree of repugnance with which people per- ceive someone or something , we ...
... culture as bad , immoral , or terrible , and they allow us to distance ourselves conceptually from " them . " We forget that we are " they . " ' To gauge the degree of repugnance with which people per- ceive someone or something , we ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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