Another take on authenticity from Grant McCracken. He’s got a number of really great essays on his blog, so take some time and and do some reading!
We can see why authentic is overtaking genuine in these circles. Genuine is too often merely nice. When we apply the term to something more than nice, we are usually giving praise for the extent to which the person so called has performed the social emotion in question in precisely the right way. (He told me he was sorry my dog Rickey had died. He seemed so genuine!) Genuine is about being true to your responsibility to saying and doing and of course feeling the right thing. Being genuine is distinctly not about being interesting, unexpected, spontaneous or unorthodox. That's authenticity's job.
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"Genuine is about being true to your responsibility to saying and doing and of course feeling the right thing. http://www.3gpp-3g2-3gp-converter.com Being genuine is distinctly not about being interesting, unexpected, spontaneous or unorthodox."
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