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Allow me to quickly explain the #SettlerNonsense in the Dior description of it's "NEW Savauge."
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Begins: A new, highly concentrated interpretation of Sauvage, melding extreme freshness with warm oriental tones... #Thread
You can read description here: dior.com/en_us/products…
Begins: A new, highly concentrated interpretation of Sauvage, melding extreme freshness with warm oriental tones... #Thread
"A new, highly concentrated interpretation of Sauvage, melding extreme freshness with warm oriental tones and wild beauty that comes to life on the skin."
"Oriental" is a craptastic way of making something "exotic". Edward Said talks about "orientalism":
"Oriental" is a craptastic way of making something "exotic". Edward Said talks about "orientalism":
Orientalism makes stereotypes of the east about how "different" these peoples are from us. And then suddenly they are just those stereotypes. Also it centers the west. See everything "over there" is the east. The world is round. We are also to the EAST of the EAST.
INTERESTING CATAWBA LANGUAGE FACT: "possessive pronouns" don't apply to food, land, etc.
In fact, I've stopped calling them "possessive pronouns" in my classes. I refer to them as "relational pronouns" since...
they only describe your relationship to other humans/some animals.
