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Scenario

How cultural specificity gets erased by lazy categorization

My comedy about being Eritrean always gets compared to other African comedians as if we're all interchangeable and I'm tired of being seen as a variation on a theme instead of my own artist.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unique particularities of your experience are being flattened into generic diversity representation.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African comedy traditions?”

Peri

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