[ SECRET POST #3815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3815 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How disingenuous of you.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed, and "cultural osmosis" is a fantastic term. There are a number of popular books/films that I've never consumed, but I have a pretty decent picture of the ins-and-outs of them from fandom; still, I wouldn't put money on me being able to write a decent paper on them. That takes some skill, I guess, and some pretty oblivious teachers.

Re: How disingenuous of you.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Yes, you can pick up a lot just from hearing about something, but you will have a much shallower understanding of it than someone's who has read/watched it (though sometimes, people have a very shallow understanding of something they have actually watched or read, myself included, because they didn't engage much with the material).

I'm not sure how much I can blame the teachers, high school teachers are often overworked and sometimes have over-crowded classrooms, and sometimes in college, TAs are responsible for grading and they've got their own work and might be working with memories of the material from when they read it a few years before, and if a student hits the major plot points and writes thoughtfully, I can see them assuming the student actually read the book. (Disclaimer: Both my parents were teachers (retired now) and I grew up in a school community with teachers as neighbor, so I'm pretty protective of them. Yes, there are terrible ones out there, I've even had a few, but most try very hard to teach and do it well, even if they don't succeed.)