Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o...
by toyg on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:06AM
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> I was taught these are two words for different concepts.
These are stories we tell ourselves to persuade us we're not "like them".
Unsurprisingly, it's a term invented by the British Empire, when people with no prospects in the motherland (like George Orwell) would move to the colonies to make their fortune but wouldn't dream for a second of ever "going native". The amount of time they ended up spending there, or whether they even came back at all, was irrelevant.
These are stories we tell ourselves to persuade us we're not "like them".
Unsurprisingly, it's a term invented by the British Empire, when people with no prospects in the motherland (like George Orwell) would move to the colonies to make their fortune but wouldn't dream for a second of ever "going native". The amount of time they ended up spending there, or whether they even came back at all, was irrelevant.