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  • Cool Beance@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlLow-hanging fruit 🥱
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    11 months ago

    I’m from Asia and honestly it’s really tiring to hear people keep making fun of Americans.

    It was never funny to bring up shit like children fucking dying from school shootings in a snarky comment, and I think any reasonable person with actual, genuine concern for the world’s problems understands that if all we had to do was give, everyone would well have fucking received already.


  • Cool Beance@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlBased on a true story
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry, I’m not sure if it’s my lack of sleep or a reading comprehension issue on my end but I don’t understand your question. Though to answer it literally, English is so influential in my country that our schools tend to speak, read, and write in English more often than our native languages. If you speak English well, it’s likely that you’ll be regarded as a high-class individual by a good chunk of people here.

    Unfortunately, that has threatened our own identity - to our people’s cultural detriment and annoyance - as you’ll probably see via English public discourse on American social media interwebs… which is why I’m saying, hey, why don’t we stop paying attention to what the US is doing every now and then? I mean, how’s Ukraine been really? What’s happening with their EU membership? Maybe if the US wasn’t always on the world stage they can actually participate more authentically and we can stop defaulting to making fun of kids dying in schools as a counterpoint, you know? It’s messed up wherever it happens.


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    1 year ago

    To be fair, the US always seems to be the center of attention anywhere you go. Why that is exactly, I don’t know. I mean for fuck’s sake, I live all the way out in bumfuck Asia and somehow news about American pop culture makes it here better than my local news does most of the time.

    I’m not belittling America’s problems but sometimes I feel like people can benefit from being made aware that too much exposure to anything - like criticism of other countries - is detrimental to our world view. It’s literally The Cultivation Theory at work.