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The Morning News

As we continue to think about appropriation, here's Chicano チカーノ, a short documentary from 2016 about how Chicano culture has been embraced in Japan—less for gang style than family values.

For a more recent take, see Walter Thompson-Hernández in the New York Times, "How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan."

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Neighborhoods in America have changed drastically but for two types: poor black neighborhoods and affluent white and Asian ones.
↩︎ Citylab 4h
“It’s like living in the zoo and you’re the only monkey left." In Cisco, Utah, ruin porn has become a tourist commodity.
↩︎ Places 5h

There has always been a division between black performers and the fruit of their creativity.

Making the argument for a space for popular dances in Fortnite that also allows artists to be compensated.
↩︎ waypoint
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The odds of being killed by cops when unarmed are about the same for black and white males; for black women, they're much higher.
↩︎ the SOURCE 5h
Candidates for the ninth European Tree of the Year contest.
↩︎ Tree of the Year 11h
A map of Mexico's mass graves. From 2006-2016, state prosecutors admitted that at least 2,884 bodies were found in 24 states.
↩︎ A dónde van los desaparecidos. 11h
"I learned that you don’t need a lot of space to have a great quality of life." A report from Canada's off-the-grid communities.
↩︎ Huck 12h
Iceberg Vodka, a Canadian vodka distiller, suffers a heist of 30,000 liters of melted iceberg.
↩︎ BBC News 12h
The first privately funded spacecraft to journey to the moon is set for launch on Thursday, propelled by a rocket from SpaceX.
↩︎ The Telegraph 12h
In case you've got the winter blues: illustrations of summery southern France by Cépé.
↩︎ It's Nice That 12h
Intimacy. Speed. Casualness (real). Casualness (false). A sort-of-comprehensive list of reasons to type in lowercase.
↩︎ The Cut 12h

“It creates an overall sense of the neighborhood being run-down. It’s a recipe for locking in poverty rather than alleviating it.”

Dollar stores can be a vital source of cheap staples. They also deter other businesses, like options for healthful food.
↩︎ The Washington Post
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There's been an exponential rise in emoji references in US court opinions, with over 30 percent of all cases appearing in 2018.
↩︎ The Verge 12h
Australia's Bramble Cay melomys is the first known mammal species to go extinct due to human-caused climate change.
↩︎ The Sydney Morning Herald 13h
The reason women now receive equal prize money in surfing contests is because one group insisted on riding giant waves.
↩︎ The New York Times Magazine 13h

The English, whose opinions have been formed by the shallow charmers and their enablers, seem fundamentally unable to conceive of a relationship with Europe that is not one of either subjection or domination.

Hari Kunzru on Brexit, or, “Fool Britannia.”
↩︎ The New York Review of Books
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Interviews with 30 attendees of a flat-Earth gathering finds that 29 hadn't thought the Earth was flat until they watched YouTube.
↩︎ The Guardian 1d
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↩︎ TMN Memberships 1d
China's vast investments in Africa produces an unintended consequence: Chinese workers returning home with newfound relligion.
↩︎ UnHerd 1d