And I am definitely on board with the "maybe we will be able to celebrate each other's cultures respectfully" thing. I think it's kinda circular, though: particularly offensive cultural distortion tends to happen when there is already a high level of casual disrespect and/or ignorance of that culture in the mainstream. But, what the effects are, and where the lines are drawn, and what can actually help or not, is definitely something I don't understand well despite some amount of trying to.
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And I am definitely on board with the "maybe we will be able to celebrate each other's cultures respectfully" thing. I think it's kinda circular, though: particularly offensive cultural distortion tends to happen when there is already a high level of casual disrespect and/or ignorance of that culture in the mainstream. But, what the effects are, and where the lines are drawn, and what can actually help or not, is definitely something I don't understand well despite some amount of trying to.