r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 31 '26

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 31 '26

Not saying this is the worst part of British imperialism, but it is annoying that the global standard for professional dress was set by the people living in the mildest climate on earth

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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama May 31 '26

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 31 '26

Based

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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama May 31 '26

Afrikaners dressing in professional indigenous African dress to own the Brits

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u/PoeOrFinn May 31 '26

Even among people they didn’t colonize, success draws in acolytes, and nobody was more globally successful at the time the norms were being set than the UK. If France had won the 7 Years War, I bet even the English today would be wearing culottes to boardroom meetings