While joinery is always fascinating to me, the variety of materials and techniques to make them useful as well as artistic expression, the overall concept of colonising another culture, be that adding, copying or removing aspects of it, isn't just stuck to physical aspects or linguistic ones.

The very crear of an individual and the cultures they came from is something under attack by those claiming to be progressive and using cultural identity as a commoditised weapon to prohibit people from finding out who they truly are from their exploration of self.

The irony is that this very argument would have been used in the past to stop people trying other foods, religions, philosophical thoughts, sexual acts, languages and other aspects of others which could be worth exploring by being draconian and 'correct' in their dogma which they insisted through force was correct.

The modern enlightenment seems to have to luminance which is ironic considering those who seem to be the furthest into progressive ideals would consider themselves able to see better than those who brought them this far.

Anywas, Norm Abram for the win!