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Ep 215: A Writer Learns to See

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How Does Language Form a Layer of Social Hierarchy?

"I'm automatically reporting from the lens and the tive of the most privileged people in that community," she says. "If i cannot, the state most certainly cannot, or does not even want to." Language can form almost a layer of social hierarchy,. like casto, which is like class, and those other things we talk about. But language does a similar thing. Whoever controls language controls everything", he writes.

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