Saturday, April 9, 2011

word of the day

deracinate: to displace from one's native or accustomed environment
photographs by chema madoz



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in the people's republic, communism's utilitarian bent first poisoned the 
culinary arts and then, in the cultural revolution of the 1960s, tried to deracinate 
 what were regarded as the insidious strains of china's former culture.
- benjamin and christina schwarz, "going all out for chinese"

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