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¿Cómo el 'blanco' se convirtió en una metáfora de las cosas buenas?

  • Written by Aradhna Krishna, Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
imageEl sueño de Jacob de Salvator Rosa (c. 1665). artuk.org

Poco después de la muerte de George Floyd, uno de mis amigos me envió un mensaje de texto diciendo que Floyd no era necesariamente una mala persona, pero agregó que “tampoco era blanco como el lirio” refiriéndose a las épocas que...

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