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This note on the postcard from Wolf Point is so telling.

https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2014/07/indian.html

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Your comment and Linh's note reminded me of the speech by Russel Means. He really lays in to the white man's words. It's refreshing.

https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/revolution-and-american-indians-marxism-is-as-alien-to-my-culture-as-capitalism/

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Sep 5Liked by Linh Dinh

"[S]o let’s bump, grind, twerk, strut and stab away. I’m thrilled such festivities don’t exist in the Orient. Dancing badly has its advantage."

Thank you--these cultural observations were what I needed this morning, along with my coffee and nicotine gum.

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Sep 3Liked by Linh Dinh

Homestead Inn - you sure you didn't hit a time warp Linh? That young receptionist is the hottest chick you could wish for in this 13th century!

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Funny to think I'm reading this excellent essay right before I'm going to bed and you are well into the next day!

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"Dancing badly has its advantage." Rachael Raygun, the Australian Olympic breakdancer who created a furor by dancing badly is a heroine to me. Tho her style was unorthodox and many were offended by it, I thought it was humorous, charming and racially apt. Seems her White Aussie creativity may pay off as she hopes to extend her 15 minutes of fame. https://7news.com.au/sport/olympics/australian-breakdancer-rachael-gunns-next-money-making-move-suddenly-emerges-c-15791437

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Your mention of knife attacks reminded me of the sad turn of events in Germany.

Now that migrants and new Germans are spicing up and enlivening Germany with thousands of knife attacks, the German police offered the sound solution that people sing when threatened by a vibrant with a knife.

Unfortunately, bigots started making fun of the police for suggesting that Germans should use knife attacks to practice their singing. So sad.

https://rmx.news/crime/germany-after-being-widely-mocked-berlin-police-drop-recommendation-to-sing-if-you-face-a-knife-attacker/

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Depends on what you sing.Amazing Grace will probably get you killed,but some Napalm Death type hollering might confuse the foreign knifist for a moment.

A friend was molested by migrants,`you Swiss piece of wimp`they went,he,being originally Czech,responded by holllering in Russian at them,got respect,was let go.Waiting for Berlin Police release of Spotify list of scary songs.

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Given that it is Germany, yodeling might be good for the tourist trade

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