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penfairy:
I feel like there’s a phenomenon that’s like mansplaining except it’s when Americans condescendingly explain things about other countries to people from those countries, or twist information about different places, cultures and time periods to fit the very narrow modern American worldview. Yanksplaining, perhaps.
It’s not just an American thing. I had an English teacher explain in painful detail the ins and out of Vietnamese culture to the entirely Vietnamese staff of the center I worked at. I wanted to die of embarrassment. I think it’s a white thing.
penfairy:
I feel like there’s a phenomenon that’s like mansplaining except it’s when Americans condescendingly explain things about other countries to people from those countries, or twist information about different places, cultures and time periods to fit the very narrow modern American worldview. Yanksplaining, perhaps.
It’s not just an American thing. I had an English teacher explain in painful detail the ins and out of Vietnamese culture to the entirely Vietnamese staff of the center I worked at. I wanted to die of embarrassment. I think it’s a white thing.