Section:culture articles
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We’re not multicultural. We have one culture. The Australian culture
Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass…What to read next: The pop culture wars | Australian Utopianism: causes and cures | Travels through the ruins of culture | Paul Fletcher, the father of Australian censorship?
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Southern Section finals, City Section championships approach for track and field
It's a big weekend for high school track and field in Southern California. On Friday, the City Section prelims will be held at El Camino College. On Saturday, the Southern Section divisional championships are set for Moorpark High School. There's also boys' volleyball championships on Saturday at Cal State Northridge for the City Section and Cerritos College for the Southern Section. In boys' lacrosse, Loyola will take on St. Margaret's for the Southern Section Division 1 boys' title on Friday...
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In Black Twitter: A People's History, A Platform Changes the Culture and a Culture Changes a Platform
From the death of Osama bin Laden (as announced by Dwayne Johnson) to the rise of Donald Trump, from #TheDress to the Oscars slap, it’s impossible to imagine the last twenty or so years of global cultural history without Twitter, the microblogging platform that no one has ever referred to as “X.” And over the past two decades, no subsection of the app’s vast user base has produced more enduring memes, more culture-shifting social-justice hashtags, and more pure comedy than the cohort known as...