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How a cliché telltales where you’re from (or what you have read)
HOW CLICHÉS ARE A NATIONAL ISSUE I’m pregnant. He is your father. I’m getting married to her. Who can save us now? The Caucasian main characters. The billionaire and the poor girl (universal motif?). To betray family for love. The traditional single mom’s family. Can you recognize these clichés? You have watched Mexican movies and tevenovelas. Argentinian clichés verse about immigrants’ arrival by vessel, how things were already fucked up and how the previous worker used to do that job… Ways to give more tasks to the office’s newbie. Peruvians love stories about the oppressed turning tables on the oppressed. In India,the names Anjali-Rahul go hand by hand. NEW YORK IS AMERICA…


