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I wrote a #blog #article about the odd phenomenon that despite being #German, a lot of us #queer and ND people socialise exclusively in English, and what kind of consequences that has on all of us and our subcultures.

I'm advocating for more native content on niche hobbies and minority identity experiences.

Here's the English version:
libre.town/thoughts/entry_13.h

And here's the German version:
libre.town/thoughts/entry_13_d

Feel free to let me know what you think. They're both long though (~3.6k words).

libre.townLocalise Yourself: A Manifesto For Indigenous Subcultures - Thoughts on Libre.Town

alojapan.com/1250800/japans-ch Japan’s chief trade negotiator to visit Washington for tariff talks this week #120817334 #article #AutoIndustry #business #EconomicPolicy #engineering #GeneralNews #GovernmentPolicy #InternationalTrade #politics #VisitJapan #WorldNews TOKYO — TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s chief trade negotiator will visit the United States this week for talks aimed at convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to remove tariff measures against the East Asian country…

Cultural appropriation is here to stay.

If we live in multicultural societies and engage in a globalised digital village that plays host to cultural forms from around the world, why do accusations of ‘cultural appropriation’ still abound?

Outside of North America the concept of ‘cultural appropriation’ barely makes sense. Most countries are overwhelmingly monolithic ethnically and culturally. Most never had segregation laws.
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thecritic.co.uk/cultural-appro