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'Thanks For Dinner ... Er, What Did I Say Wrong?'

'Thanks For Dinner ... Er, What Did I Say Wrong?'

On the difficulties of cross-cultural communication. Plus: Sex & God, the trans abortion doula, Skynet in China, Georgia's Color Revolution, and Sad Modern Woman

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Mar 08, 2023
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From this BBC short video — click link to watch

Y’all are going to love this piece from Behavioral Scientist magazine, which I found linked to on Joshua Treviño’s Substack Armas It’s by Batja Mesquita, a Dutch psychologist teaching now in Belgium. She writes about her time spent teaching in a Michigan university, and how hard it was for her to learn how …

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