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Published · transcript-backedKevin Kelly: prediction
3 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
“Because that’s the first to go — adopting machine-made Western dress, which is the cheapest clothing you can buy, is the first traditional indigenous culture to disappear.”
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- Kevin Kelly
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- 3 May 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…In 2023, where’s the best place to see vanishing Asia now? My book records the places in the world that there are still remnants of a traditional culture. The ideal place: they’re still wearing costumes. Because that’s the first to go — adopting machine-made Western dress, which is the cheapest clothing you can buy, is the first traditional indigenous culture to disappear. Where are they still wearing native costumes in that way? One is in Myanmar, where there’s a lot of very traditional culture. It’s one of the least developed and isolated, up in the mountains. That’s one place you could go to see vanishing Asia. Even places in Afghanistan, despite the troubles in the wars — it is so poor that there are still areas that have not been developed and there’s still a lot of very traditional culture and costume there. Of course, I don’t recommend going there, but [laughs] it’s possible. Why are costumes the first thing to vanish?…
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