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Great points Freda. I probably won’t have time to go into it in class too much, but the great urban parks of New York City (e.g. Central Park) were explicitly intentionally designed in order to “blur”...
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Great Yuri. Enjoying food is universal. (Unless you’re Alec.) This makes food sharing an area where bonds can be formed that might not come as easily in other areas of culture (e.g. music, literature,...
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Missy Elliot? Did somebody watch the Superbowl halftime show? I would have been happier if the whole show had been Missy, but that’s probably a generational thing. The Civil Rights Era tried to...
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“If change were not to happen or if new people were to populate the town then it would never have had “soul” in the first place.” This is such an important point. It cuts to the hidden important...
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What a great post Aniqa! Thank you. In reply to - Aniqa Shah wrote a new post, English is Unavoidable, on the site The Peopling of NYC Before I started school, I only spoke Bangla. My parents were both...
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Great post Christina. I think this third paragraph is both intriguing and slightly problematic. On one hand, I agree with the general idea that the government should permit enclaves to exist when they...
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Yes. So much yes. I remember my first trip to the South, when I was a couple years older than you, thinking, “where has this food been all my life?” Partly because it was good. Like, really bad for you...
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haha. What a great post. I had to think about it for a minute, but I think you’re on the right track. I would substitute the term “ethnic” (retaining the scare quotes) for non-American, because that is...
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Really interesting distinction here. Taking a cultural thing that came from somewhere else and making it American means making it communal and shared, while cultural theft, a closely related tendency,...
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Nice post Japneet. I agree about the second part, and I don’t actually think it’s off-topic at all. Many people who study race in America have observed that whiteness is sort of a default “normative”...
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Great post Japneet – I do think it makes sense to think pretty hard about the nutritional content of “American” foods these days. The truth is that we’d be a healthier nation if we had embraced...
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Hmm… interesting post. I agree with a lot of what you say here. And the NYU example is right on the money. (No pun intended.) But I’m not entirely convinced by the last part – we live in a...
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great post Jennifer. Really nicely done. In reply to - Jennifer Shmukler wrote a new post, A Bloody Melting Pot, on the site The Peopling of NYC As far as history can tell, racial and ethnic difference...
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Really nice post John. When you mentioned Italian and Argentine foods and “natural flavors” that surpass what we get from quintessentially processed American foods, I had this terrible thought maybe...
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Terrific post Katherine! At some point in the future I will have to quote this: “more comfortable now as a mediator between the two cultures, rather than an awkward outlier of both”… Just really well...
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Love this post. I didn’t know about #OscarSoWhite before you wrote about it, but it’s been a growing complaint. As people of color make headways in terms of directing or producing or writing major...
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Another nice post. But the first half and second seem a little bit inconsistent. If the market were permitted to decide which college sports received institutional support and resources, then there...
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This is an outstanding post Megan. Gordon writes about neighborhoods like the Lower East Side, “the self-contained communal life of the immigrant colonies served, then, as a kind of decompression...
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Great post Nazir. Well argued. And I tend to agree that the problem with gentrification might be the process (i.e. how it happens) rather than the loss of something that was inevitably transient to...
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