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I believe GP's statement on international apps was sarcastic and subtly pointed out that this technological siloization would foster narrow worldviews.

asdff 7y ago
Language silos our world view more than tech could. If you read a news article about Greece that isn't in Greek, chances are you are reading a cherry picked one off story that the newspaper thought might be of general interest to English speaking audiences, leaving behind an entire reality that is invisible to your world view, having never uttered Greek to steep yourself in the most thorough relevant information, or even been to Greece to see it all for yourself. The Greece you've constructed in your head doesn't even exist.
- anticodon 7y ago
  Yes. Western people really can't understand this. Western media can publish only negative facts about some country and this creates completely distorted world view. They don't even have to publish fake news (although they were pioneers in this also). Centralised platforms like Google also contribute to this because they can (and in case of Google they do it indeed) lift up negative articles and bury positive.
  - anoncake 7y ago
    Greece is part of the West. Some even say they invented it.
    - anticodon 7y ago
      Current West is populated by the people that were called "barbarians" in Greece, if I'm not mistaken.
anticodon 7y ago
The world is already siloed and narrow minded and always was. E.g. OP writes "evil countries like Russia, China, Iran". It's a very narrow view that is very far from truth. It is formed exclusively by western media and nothing else where another evil country - US - tries to defile every other country in order to loot it using direct (invasion) or indirect (sanctions and neo-colonial politics) measures.
- Nition 7y ago
  I think ani-ani is right in their interpretation though, and that's why "Evil" was capitalized. Viewed as evil, not necessarily truly evil at all.

asdff 7y ago

Language silos our world view more than tech could. If you read a news article about Greece that isn't in Greek, chances are you are reading a cherry picked one off story that the newspaper thought might be of general interest to English speaking audiences, leaving behind an entire reality that is invisible to your world view, having never uttered Greek to steep yourself in the most thorough relevant information, or even been to Greece to see it all for yourself. The Greece you've constructed in your head doesn't even exist.

anticodon 7y ago
Yes. Western people really can't understand this. Western media can publish only negative facts about some country and this creates completely distorted world view. They don't even have to publish fake news (although they were pioneers in this also). Centralised platforms like Google also contribute to this because they can (and in case of Google they do it indeed) lift up negative articles and bury positive.
- anoncake 7y ago
  Greece is part of the West. Some even say they invented it.
  - anticodon 7y ago
    Current West is populated by the people that were called "barbarians" in Greece, if I'm not mistaken.

anticodon 7y ago

The world is already siloed and narrow minded and always was. E.g. OP writes "evil countries like Russia, China, Iran". It's a very narrow view that is very far from truth. It is formed exclusively by western media and nothing else where another evil country - US - tries to defile every other country in order to loot it using direct (invasion) or indirect (sanctions and neo-colonial politics) measures.

Nition 7y ago
I think ani-ani is right in their interpretation though, and that's why "Evil" was capitalized. Viewed as evil, not necessarily truly evil at all.