Cultivated
Hi
What's the difference between cultivated and civilized (like cultivated Europe)
?Thanks in advance
Top answer
Both words are loaded, "cultivate" more than "civilized", to my mind. They describe a division between people who consider themselves better than you and people who you consider to be worse than you. Everybody who is not a cannibal is more civilized than a cannibal, granted, but there are cannibals who are more civilized than those nasty uncivilized cannibals who eat the parts that any civilized cannibal turns his nose up at.
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Both words are loaded, "cultivate" more than "civilized", to my mind. They describe a division between people who consider themselves better than you and people who you consider to be worse than you. Everybody who is not a cannibal is more civilized than a cannibal, granted, but there are cannibals who are more civilized than those nasty uncivilized cannibals who eat the parts that any civiliz
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