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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Culturally rich in White people speak means they read books, admire stolen artifacts and rewritten histories in museums, stare at art locked behind glass in galleries, and consider themselves ‘civilized’.

It’s not culture as POC would define it. 
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Oh, stop. This is so tiresome, little miss keyboard activist[/quote]

But am I wrong? The ‘literati’ pp and ‘sophisticated’ pp in the apartment full of dusty books have corroborated. 
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Literati, here: Yes, Keyboard warrior. I will lend you my Lorde and Anzaldúa. I actually have quite a bit you would probably like.

There have been a lot of assumptions made on this board but what strikes me the most is the contempt for what we could call the "mid
intellectual classes"--the lawyers, PhDs, and people with grad degress in the social sciences/humanities who have PowerPoint jobs. Like it is a crime to be a well-read middle manager who doesn't make enough to fly business class to see Klimt whenever they want, but they have seen it and Amsterdam and will probably go to Amsterdam again before they die. If this angers the actual rich--the question is why? Why do they even care?

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I’m not rich. I don’t go to Amsterdam to see Klimt. I’ve been adding that the white people definition ‘culturally rich’ is different from POC. It’s a viewpoint that should be considered within the context of this topic.

Since you’re so worldly and well educated, taking consideration of that seems like it shouldn’t strike such a nerve. But go ahead and read about it and discuss it as lofty conversation pieces in your echo chamber then call me a keyboard warrior for sharing my experience of this definition because you don’t want to think about culture in any other way than what fits your self description. [/quote]

DP: As a POC whose tastes align with having lots of 'dusty books,' going to museums and who has even been known to spend a few days in the archives, what rubbed me wrong about your response is that you generalized their experience to be that of "white people" and put it contrast to a generic "POC" experience.  I can relate to being culturally rich in the sense of deeply valuing culture and spending more energy on developing my understanding of culture than optimizing money. Which is what I think OP was talking about.  OP's definition of 'culturally rich' may not align with your definition of 'culturally rich' -- but there are people of every race who align more with learning than optimizing money.  [/quote]

But is books and museums how you define culture? Obviously, reading and education are valued in some people of every race, ethnicity, and nationality. But that is usually not the definition of culture in other groups. It’s being well educated. Educated in books, educated in arts, educated in science.

Well educated, highly educated, a connoisseur of the arts, etc.

While white people here use the term culture to describe the above. For example, telling a person from Vietnam that might live in the suburbs in an enclave where there are a lot of Asians that they live in DC where there is culture is going to cause a disconnect of language usage.

Truly I cannot understand why the ‘cultured’ cannot understand this nuance and not be so defensive of it.

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Because they never made the claim that theirs was the only definition of culture.  You assumed it.  [/quote]

The title makes the distinction of culturally rich and asset poor. That was a definition. I simply added to that another definition for the sake of a balanced discussion. That clearly can’t happen with the ‘sophisticates’ it seems.

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