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Is it true or false that a dominant discourse is one of the structures of power, so subtle we can unwittingly adopt them as common sense? this is true.
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So this is something put forward by foucault.
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He spoke a lot about discourse, and discourse is how we talk about things.
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The dominant discourse is the very mainstream way that we talk about things, and it's something that we grow up with and that everybody is talking about in the same way.
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So sometimes we don't even think.
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Realize that we've taken on this position.
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We don't even realize that there is an alternative position.
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For example, we may speak about immigration.
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We may speak about the rules of how to immigrate or emigrate.
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We may speak about people being illegals if they have immigrated illegally, but this is something that we all generally accept as being a dominant discourse.
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But someone might have an alternative view...