Culture exists in community, and community exists in context. Geography, tradition, collective memory: these things are important.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local (TEDGlobal 2014); Two complete sentences from the speaker’s clarification that local belonging does not mean abolishing countries or disregarding history. Full official transcript read; own words, not Colum McCann or William Deresiewicz quoted elsewher
- Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local (TEDGlobal 2014)
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