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Maybe the concepts of "cultural displacement" and "the cultural interspace" are unique to post-colonial, English-speaking cultures of fading European descent
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I dunno, Hydra, but I think that maybe the paragraph above is intranslatable in all of the so-called foreign languages.
It is to me in English.
Post-colonial theory 101.
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If the Japanese do not have a word for "Kitsch" its because they do not want to have a word for the disgusting rubbish they are selling.
(It sells , so don't even name it except for the Tag name)
I'm referring to this new indeed doe eyed lump of plastic that is supposed to be a doll.
Every parent's nightmare!
The also kitschy Barbies and Baby Borns are genuine works of art compared to these!
Rubbish! post-colonial nightmare nr.1
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... what does the phrase "so-called foreign language" assume?
It assumes the writer rejects the anglo-centric bias, opting instead for a do-gooder, wishy-washy, liberal, one-world philosophy.
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It assumes the writer rejects the anglo-centric tendency, choosing instead for a do-gooder, ineffectual, liberal, one world philosophy.
Do-gooder and liberal seem incompatible to me. Depends on what should be understood by "liberal" here.
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That'd be the standard USn definition of liberal, not to be confused with the so-called foreign definition.
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These people don't say the equivalent of, for ex., "I'm going to the store to look for a good pair of shoes"?
Well, first off, it'd be in Chinese or Russian. Second off we were talking about words, not sentences.
The languages I listed have no definite or indefinite articles. My suggestion is that you can translate anything from one language to another. It might be wordy, but ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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