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I think what seanhandley meant was that the current obsessions and the particular form they take in the US is highly particular to the US and it is a mistake (o
by bobthechef 9y ago
I think what seanhandley meant was that the current obsessions and the particular form they take in the US is highly particular to the US and it is a mistake (often made by Americans and those in the Anglo-American sphere) to universalize and project this American phenomenon outward instead of understanding it as something bizarrely and uniquely American.
- digi_owl 9y agoMore worryingly, it seems that the "anglo" media is expert at exporting their world view to the rest of the world given time.
- CM30 9y agoThis is definitely an interesting point. There are quite a few people on social media sites acting like US specific outrages are somehow common to the whole world, despite their area not actually being affected by those issues (like police violence in the UK where it's mostly nonexistent). Seems the internet and popular media has given people the impression they're all Americans and that American issues and cultural norms are true everywhere on the planet. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EaglelandOsmosis http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EaglelandOsmosis Or how in other cases, there are quite a critical comments on media from other countries because they don't go by cultural norms in the US, or what not.