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[quote=Anonymous]NP. Podcasts! Find podcasts about literature and history and, if you have time, read the books the narrators talk about.

By one definition, culture is being able to talk about a lot of different issues with a lot of different people. It's not necessarily about being able to talk about Oprah's latest book choice, although I do read some of them because I'm interested.

I like this one on history: The Rest is History Club. They do a lot about Britain, but also about the US. So, recently they did the fall of Saigon, the rise of Reagan, and the American Revolution. At the same time you'll learn about Napoleon (this week), India, and Dan Brown's books (spoiler alert: the episode on the Cathars from a year or two ago shows Brown to be hilariously the victim of a French hotel owner's fraud). They're about to launch into 8 weeks on the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and they've already said it won't be friendly to Spain. But I suppose this could be criticized as white men doing mostly European history.

I also like the podcast called Empire. They talk about the East India Company brutalizing India, the history of slavery, and more. [/quote]

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