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I think there's an argument to be made that those from honour cultures find that 'fighting words' are sufficient to prompt violence. I clearly don't agree with this, but I believe that this is the cultural operating system that the family is running. It explains their 'you're racist' outbursts 1 2 3 against the judge and Nowak's family after sentencing. They find the killing justified because of the words they were told were spoken by Digwa.
I dont think they actually believe the judge is racist. The words are unimportant compared to the ease of employment of a thought terminating cliche to expatiate the consequences of chimping out. Honor and izzat and respect and culture are words that can stop castigation when employed by minorities, and they use it to be assholes not to live their lives in a special way. Indians in management use 'culture fit' to justify firing everyone nonindian and bringing in a village of their own kin to parasite off the organization till it fails. Its just whichever magic word has weight and we are still living in the shadow of st floyd
I agree. I think its just 'arguments as soldiers'. Tools to be used or discarded according to how convenient they are in the moment.
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