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I think that line of reasoning is a trap. It is easy to come up with narratives that paint people in other countries as being “weird” in some way, but we should
by klodolph 6y ago
I think that line of reasoning is a trap. It is easy to come up with narratives that paint people in other countries as being “weird” in some way, but we shouldn’t. The UK has all its articles about weird EU regulations, the EU have articles about the funny things Americans do, and the Americans read articles about how weird Japan is.
This isn’t a celebration of diversity, it’s an industrial process where you find something bizarre or distasteful about another country and amplify it for views on social media.
- fladrif 6y agoI don't think that's the only result of that line of reasoning. We don't have to poke fun of other cultures in order to appreciate the differences. Sure, the lowest common denominator of these types of mass-produced articles are to ridicule or present as a freak show, but I feel that in a more curated and personal space like hacker news we can identify the differences and explore their deeper meaning without succumbing to the mean.