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https://medium.com/@damonreece/the-uncanny-valley-of-culture-9d035a3c1776
Interesting article. My Aussie friend in Japan used to talk about cultural cringe, which I never understood. Either Canadian culture is so close to American as makes no difference, or Canadians feel congenitally superior to Americans, or both. Our cringe, such as it is, is extremely Heepish: we know we're not as big or bold or rich or influential or whatever as you are-- but of course we're better by virtue of not being you.
FWIW I think this is a purely Anglo Canuck attitude. The French (Italians, Indians, Chinese, Portugese, Polish, Hungarians, Koreans, Thai, etc etc etc) probably feel different.
As for reading Wednesday, have finished Dahl's Matilda, Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock & Sleeping Murder, DNF her Passenger to Frankfurt, Curtain, & Lord Edgware Dies (maybe when I'm in the mood), finished Davis' A Comedy of Terrors & Desperate Undertaking.
Now reading Davis' Fatal Legacy and Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
Have got nowhere with Sense and Sensibility or The Master and Margarita.
Next will be whichever ebook hold comes in. Library is slowly coming back online, though the catalogue is still not up. But when it is, I may be able to get my missing Flavia Albias in hard copy.
Interesting article. My Aussie friend in Japan used to talk about cultural cringe, which I never understood. Either Canadian culture is so close to American as makes no difference, or Canadians feel congenitally superior to Americans, or both. Our cringe, such as it is, is extremely Heepish: we know we're not as big or bold or rich or influential or whatever as you are-- but of course we're better by virtue of not being you.
FWIW I think this is a purely Anglo Canuck attitude. The French (Italians, Indians, Chinese, Portugese, Polish, Hungarians, Koreans, Thai, etc etc etc) probably feel different.
As for reading Wednesday, have finished Dahl's Matilda, Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock & Sleeping Murder, DNF her Passenger to Frankfurt, Curtain, & Lord Edgware Dies (maybe when I'm in the mood), finished Davis' A Comedy of Terrors & Desperate Undertaking.
Now reading Davis' Fatal Legacy and Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
Have got nowhere with Sense and Sensibility or The Master and Margarita.
Next will be whichever ebook hold comes in. Library is slowly coming back online, though the catalogue is still not up. But when it is, I may be able to get my missing Flavia Albias in hard copy.