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This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I s

by rmellow 11y ago

This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.

openfuture 11y ago
Lol you should try being from Iceland
- bobwaycott 11y ago
  Iceland has Sigur Rós. Don't be greedy.
tripzilch 11y ago
> I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally? Palto Alto / Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time. You know what's in Redmond, right? And what's in Utah? :) Wwhen a news article talks about popular software/service being developed outside of California, they usually spend a little paragraph or so on the place (blablabla cold winters in Maine blabla data centre bla--just made that one up btw). Greetings from the land that brought you Python, a shortest-path algorithm and compact-discs ;-)
- pbhjpbhj 11y ago
  Actually I think that a locality and a country are quite different. If instead the comment was "these both come out of Brasilia" then there's perhaps some sense - one might think that perhaps there is some local culture that's aiding this sort of development or that there might be a local initiative that's helping to create a tech hub of sorts [but it could of course just be serendipity]. But just having a country in common - suppose one main developer is in a favela using a XO laptop and another is in a high class penthouse apartment, what's the link then, why does them being in the same country mean anything, they might not even talk the same language or have the same ethnicity. Some interesting thoughts, thanks to all for tolerating my ponderings.

by rmellow 11y ago

openfuture 11y ago

Lol you should try being from Iceland

bobwaycott 11y ago
Iceland has Sigur Rós. Don't be greedy.

tripzilch 11y ago

> I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities. Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally? Palto Alto / Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time. You know what's in Redmond, right? And what's in Utah? :) Wwhen a news article talks about popular software/service being developed outside of California, they usually spend a little paragraph or so on the place (blablabla cold winters in Maine blabla data centre bla--just made that one up btw). Greetings from the land that brought you Python, a shortest-path algorithm and compact-discs ;-)

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
Actually I think that a locality and a country are quite different. If instead the comment was "these both come out of Brasilia" then there's perhaps some sense - one might think that perhaps there is some local culture that's aiding this sort of development or that there might be a local initiative that's helping to create a tech hub of sorts [but it could of course just be serendipity]. But just having a country in common - suppose one main developer is in a favela using a XO laptop and another is in a high class penthouse apartment, what's the link then, why does them being in the same country mean anything, they might not even talk the same language or have the same ethnicity. Some interesting thoughts, thanks to all for tolerating my ponderings.