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Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

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Re: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

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Post by goatse_aas »

throwawaysea wrote: post #16
ne0flex wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely being brought into other countries one way or another. Back in university, I went to study abroad in Japan and there were several American professors at the university. The one's teaching arts courses such as English, Journalism, etc. would definitely sneak America's political rhetoric in their lessons. Now, I work for a Japanese company in the US and often go take business trips to Japan and can defi…

This sounds like the “intellectual matrix” the French education minister wrote about recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa... > French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American…

> French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society.

French politicians are dipshits, who cares? Are you all really dumb enough to think that woke college kids are the biggest problem on earth? Of course you are.

Re: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

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Post by zthrowaway »

atlgator wrote: post #75

I would not be surprised if there is a billionaire and/or large nation state pushing this all over. If you can stir up social issues to stymie productivity, it makes it easy to grow your own economy. Even easier if your country is homogenous and doesn't have a legacy of racism to atone for.

I would wager just about every country has a dirty history that can be used for political purposes. I worry about this type of political approach being exported to more cultures, because at some point there will be a breaking point where everyone is too far down the road to reverse and we head into wars.

Re: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

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Post by [deleted] »

akomtu wrote: post #69

I wouldn't call that woke fundamentalism the American culture: it's popular only among a very loud minority. The good half of America actively despises it (e.g. take a look at the redstate site) and in fact quite a few governors have started banning teaching CRT in schools.

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Re: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

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Post by 3grdlurker »

akomtu wrote: post #69

I wouldn't call that woke fundamentalism the American culture: it's popular only among a very loud minority. The good half of America actively despises it (e.g. take a look at the redstate site) and in fact quite a few governors have started banning teaching CRT in schools.

The article makes no mention of “woke fundamentalism”, whatever that means, and there’s a lot of mention about QAnon and All Lives Matter, so I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Are you sure you read the article?

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Post by naruvimama »

dominotw wrote: post #23

In India we had black lives matter movement where they panned the use of 'fair and lovely' facecream.

Yeah it is ironic considering the fact that after abolishing black slavery, the plantation owners were compensated with brown slaves.

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Post by sergiomattei »

naruvimama wrote: post #79
mc32 wrote: post #14

What's a bit ironic to me is that this extension of US cultural hegemony used to be derided as cultural imperialism back a few decades ago before other cultural exports became vogue (Anime, K-Pop, etc.) when it was the US vs everyone else. But now, many of the people who would have decried this kind of hegemonic influence delight in it. They delight in the fact we can establish norms for communication and discourse n…

For some of us from excolonies, this is starting to feel like neocolonialism. We see our elected leaders bending the knee to the new east India company. It looks like we have been recolonised before we could decolonise.

For us, the still colonized, we're used to it.

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Post by trophycase »

wolverine876 wrote: post #67
dasb wrote: post #43

It's funny when radical progressivists in my country try to translate the "white male" cliché into our local context, because white (as in caucasian white) people are are less than 5% of our population.

It doesn't sound difficult to me. It has nothing to do with whiteness and maleness; it's about political power. If there is a group that is a dominant political power, it's the same thing. That's why issues of 'reverse racism' are a different problem: Discrimination is about power, not race. If American Buddhists are discriminatory against Baptists, it's obnoxious but not an issue of oppression or much threat to Bapt…

lmao the "discrimination is about power" is so played out and is used as a tool to justify "reverse" racism (which is just racism). What does a police officer being more afraid during a traffic stop of black people have to do with institutional power? What does people walking home at night and crossing the road when "certain" people are on their side have to do with institutional power? Nothing. This whole "racism = power + prejudice" thing is an intentional normalization of the ability for everyone to be racist to whites (or asians I guess) without having to be held to their same standards. I've rarely ever seen this argument used without a basically overtly racist/sexist comment either preceding or following it.

Re: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture

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Post by 3grdlurker »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #54

It's not a recent phenomena - it's been happening since WWII. The weirdest part is - the stronger someone is influenced by American political culture, the more they'll tell you about how awful America is.

Because people who are ignorant about America obviously have nothing to say of it? I’m not sure what your point is exactly, but you sound like you’re making ignorance of global politics a good thing.

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Post by naruvimama »

dominotw wrote: post #23

In India we had black lives matter movement where they panned the use of 'fair and lovely' facecream.

It might be the result of a continuing colonial mindset.

All good emerges from the white European but anything bad is a universal problem.

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