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This comment raises an interesting question I've seen from time to time. Is HN, run by an American company, an American publication? And therefore headlines def
by johnsolo1701 8y ago
This comment raises an interesting question I've seen from time to time. Is HN, run by an American company, an American publication? And therefore headlines default to an American context?
Surely there are e.g. Chinese news aggregators like HN out there. When they run articles like this, are those headlines titled "What the Chinese media universe currently looks like"? Or do they assume a Chinese context, because they are written in Chinese? Are there commenters on the Chinese HN calling out headlines for not contextualizing the article in global terms properly?
I think this raises some interesting thoughts about the issues that arise when your nation's native tongue is also the international lingua franca. Everyone can read your media, and it maybe changes expectations about default scope/context.