Another really annoying new fad is that students refer to Hispanic politicians and writers as “they.” I’m struggling to understand sentences like, “Augusto Pinochet was a dictator of Chile and they are best known for…” or “in their book Jorge Volpi describes their experience…”
Drives me up a wall.
What’s funny is that these students condemn cultural imperialism in the same essay. I have written on several papers, “How are your efforts to impose your beliefs on other cultures different from the cultural imperialism you so passionately condemn?” People don’t even notice the contradiction in what they are doing.
Signs of schizophrenia: believing one man represents a plurality just because you want to believe it yourself.
Oh, “we” meant “they” and “themselves”, obviously. 🙂
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