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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by arcticbull on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:37PM (#38677562)
Culture is always in a state of flux. It’s not sad, it just is. I’m not sad I won’t get to see Victorian London. In the narrative arc of humanity things keep getting better, not worse.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by concordDance on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:57PM (#38677684)
I'm not sure how common this preference is. I'm personally always sad when unique cultures diminish or disappear and this seems to be a not unusual sentiment judging by popular media. Whether this is the Cherokee or Victorian England there are valuable and interesting things and losing them is sad.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by Apocryphon on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:30PM (#38678944)
Victorian England will forever live on in Sherlock Holmes novels, Ripperana, Dickens Fairs, steampunk. There is an article about Victorian customs on the front page. It is literally one of the most overexposed, overplayed, and overused historical eras.
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