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Enforcing culture is highly discriminatory. You have to talk, dress, and act a certain way within cultural boundaries, otherwise you're discriminated against.
by linuxftw 7y ago
Enforcing culture is highly discriminatory. You have to talk, dress, and act a certain way within cultural boundaries, otherwise you're discriminated against.
Imagine you're in a job interview. You describe the position to a candidate, and the candidate says "Wow, that sounds cool."
You describe the position to a different candidate. That person says "Shxt, that's tight dog."
Does one sound more professional to you? Why? Are you going to make any inferences about that persons capability to be a good employee based on how they speak? Of course you are. Is that right? Probably not.
- Digory 7y agoAll norms reflect a certain kinds of power. We seem to be in a period where norms are assumed to be malicious or harmful, where the majority has a moral obligation to minimize the advantages of following norms. At bottom, though, that's just an attack on all norms.