It's provincialism: the assumption that your audience is in the US or Western Europe. There is an implicit "Overwhelmingly American" in the beginning of that li

It's provincialism: the assumption that your audience is in the US or Western Europe. There is an implicit "Overwhelmingly American" in the beginning of that list. Understood in that context, it is not an unreasonable statement: in that world this describes a traditionally privileged group. In this particular article, however, it doesn't even matter that this group is powerful. The quote is meant to juxtapose the group of people deciding about emoji vs. the majority of the world. It's got a flaw in it, in that the majority of Emojis were decided by people overwhelming male and overwhelmingly Japanese :) But back to your core complaint: I think you're right that you shouldn't have to read something is wrong with you. I think you're collateral damage in what is an overall valuable attempt to get people that share those characteristics but also have more power and privilege than you to experience some discomfort. As I said initially, I think you're collateral damage because of people's shortsightedness even as their intentions are often (certainly not always) good. I was born in the USSR and well understand this angle. Everyone unfortunately has their blind spots.