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In reply to the discussion: Two Black Women Walk Into The Grocery Store . . . [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,816 posts)You wrote the w.p. words. Hide lapislzi. Run. be afraid.
Kidding aside - try framing it as a dominant culture thing. I'm studying now for my Italy citizenship (husband is from Italy) and I like the way the cultural parts as framed . . . "dominant culture". Granted they have their problems - what country doesn't? Dunno?
But as I'm learning the language and starting to take a deep dive - my husband used that as an explanation.
IE - I never knew Hannibal was black - of African descent.
My husbands response to me was - So what? He's Italian. Our culture and history are dominant and that's that.
Hence why I use dominant culture here. Their (Ancient Rome /Italy's) slave culture ended hundreds and hundreds of years ago. But their dominant culture has absorbed the "other" into it as just ho hum - "You gotta problem with that?"
^My life experience made extraordinary by who I chose to marry ^