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I wrote about how I feel hegemonic and subaltern culture doesn't really exist and therefore the question of voice doesn't matter.  The "hegemonic" crowd has about as much vocal stamina as the subaltern as Chang dutifully pointed out in demonstrating the ignorance of the American, Canadian and other "white guy" participants of the cruise. In fact, I felt those with the strongest voices, the strongest words were from Shui Yu. She calls out Bo Yu Chen's mood and makes him realize that he's miserable on the boat; his ignorance (juxtaposed against the ignorance of the tourists) alienates him from the others.

TO me, this pretty much means that these attitudes involving barriers between third world and first world citizens are superfluous-- "These terms are arbitrary constructs, not reports of reality" (Gates 6).  If what Julia Anna Cooper says about black devils painted by white painters, Louis C.K. is right.  He caps off his joke with..."It's a very white attitude, don't you think?"