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80: The Black British Experience Is Not an American One, with Tomiwa Owolade

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The Effect of Soft Power on International Populations

The US is a far more violent country than the UK. Nevertheless, when we interpret social phenomenon in the UK, many of us still do it through an American perspective. I feel like there was also a lot of conflation between events that happened to me but not to any black American anywhere. It actually does so much more harm than good in making international populations of people forced under the same umbrella as if they are just like Americans," she says.

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