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The Defenders-only Discussion Post!
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Talk about the Defenders! Speculate, discuss, squee and debate. There's a thread for each episode so you can discuss what you've watched so far without being spoiled for future episodes - click on top level view to see only the first comment in each thread and stay spoiler-free.
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(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education
(Anonymous) 2017-08-25 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education
(Anonymous) 2017-08-25 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)He might not be as immersed in the oral tradition as his peers who were born into it, though, and he obviously didn't do all of his obligatory reading US. students do at school. (You do have obligatory readings, right? I'm a European, we sort of tell horror stories about how your education is organised around here.)
so he wouldn't be exceptionally knowledgeable in either, I guess. But I think people around this thread overestimate how important literary knowledge is in Western societies nowadays. Plenty of people never read a book in their life, and function with the rest of us without much problem.
(frozen comment) Re: To people who watched Iron Fist: A Very Important Question about Danny Rand and education
(Anonymous) 2017-08-25 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)We do have obligatory readings! It depends on which school, class, and grade level, and in college it's often a lot more, but we do have books/essays/short stories/poetry/texts that we have to read for various classes.
I mean, maybe, but I...I'm not saying that totally illiterate people can't function, but I do think it would be sharply noticeable to people who know them closely (unless they loved TV and were up on pop culture in that sense, or were huge jocks/sports fanatics and had jobs that didn't require any reading), and at least in the particular area where I live there aren't any people who 'never read a book in their life'. (Which is not representative of the whole US or of NYC either.) And especially with somebody like Danny who doesn't have the requisite socialcultural competence or people-skills to hide any gaps or otherwise make up for them, I really do think that in many areas he just wouldn't function either, or only would because of his money.