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I had not made any ideological or nationalistic comment I merely stated that culturally american values are very different and is often forced upon people in ot
by type0 6y ago
I had not made any ideological or nationalistic comment I merely stated that culturally american values are very different and is often forced upon people in other countries via the internet. I don't wish HN to become that way, once I see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html enforcing conformity to american culture I will stop using it as I'm sure many users in other countries will. Thank you Dang for moderating accordingly.
- dang 6y agoIf you had expressed it the way you just did here, that would have been fine. But when you frame it with words like "imperialism", "revolting", and "bullshit", that becomes flamewar. As for your general point, HN users are about 50% in the US, and of course some of those are immigrants/expats. So HN is a highly international site. It certainly has a US orientation, but I think that's far from "conformity to American culture" and certainly we have zero intention of forcing that. We want people to be themselves and have curious conversation across their differences. In a way I think a bigger problem here is the opposite to what you're saying. Because so many of the non-American users here have such incredibly good English, it seems on the surface that the site is much more uniform than it is. People have no idea how diverse the community here is, and it makes for a lot of misunderstandings, often bitter ones.