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My best teacher ever,
a communication professor, taught me that true communicative competence is to be able to disagree across all social situations. Not to be disagreeable, but to be able to disagree.
I've come to see this as the central human problem-- politics, work, culture, relationships. The whole weight of culture is that women can't disagree with men, blacks with whites, poor with rich, young with old, workers with bosses, and on and on.
So, now you feel the whole weight of the problem, and you don't know how to do it! But isn't it cool to have got this far?