Garbage in a sense becomes those who process and remove it
Does the highlighted section in the following context mean "In a sense, those who process and remove garbage, whose identities become equivalent to garbage; as we are clean and they are not clean, garbage does not belong to us any more, is another word, we remain clean because they are not clean"?
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Her performance-based work Touch Sanitation from 1979–80 involved the artist’s performance and photographic documentation of the “handshake ritual”—that is, her meeting and shaking of hands with every sanitation worker employed by the New York City Department of Sanitation at the time. The ritual comprised both a gesture of appreciation and thanks on the part of the artist, but also the desire to recognize the individuals whose labor is not only devalued but also marginalized as unclean. Ukeles understands this marginalization as being related to cultural notions about garbage as something abject. Garbage in a sense becomes those who process and remove it; it is no longer “ours” as we are clean, and they are not, or we remain clean because they are not.
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red apple In a sense, those who process and remove garbage, whose identities become equivalent to garbage; This does not make sense as there is no main clause. red apple as we are clean and they are not clean, garbage does not belong to us any more, You structure the sentence as if the second part is a result of the first; that is not the case. red apple is another word, we remain clean because they are not clean Again, you've not got this quite right.
- red apple In a sense, those who process and remove garbage, whose identities become equivalent to garbage; This does not make sense as there is no main clause.
- red apple as we are clean and they are not clean, garbage does not belong to us any more, You structure the sentence as if the second part is a result of the first; that is not the case.
- red apple is another word, we remain clean because they are not clean Again, you've not got this quite right.
- ' I think, although your use of English is not very clear, that you have the general idea.
- The author suggests that if you process garbage, you become garbage in a sense.
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red appleIn a sense, those who process and remove garbage, whose identities become equivalent to garbage;
This does not make sense as there is no main clause.
red appleas we are clean and they are not clean, garbage does not belong to us any more,
You structure the sentence as if the second part is a result of th
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