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More weird is that Merican Wokeness is replacing *ness in other countries. Finnish has only one personal pronoun for all sexes, but Woke Finns add American Pron
by timonoko 5y ago
More weird is that Merican Wokeness is replacing *ness in other countries. Finnish has only one personal pronoun for all sexes, but Woke Finns add American Pronouns to their twitter pages.
- fridif 5y agoProbably for the same reason that foot biding took off in China
- swarnie 5y agoI'm not sure anyone has a clue what you're on about. Care to expand?
- throwaway6734 5y agoI'm assuming op meant "foot binding". Not sure the relevance though
- mountainriver 5y agoFoot bidding is actually a practice from 14th century China in which men would place bids to see a woman’s foot. The winner would receive a hand painted portrait of the foot.
- fridif 5y agoSorry, realized I never replied. First, yes, I made a typo and meant to say "foot binding". The reason I mentioned this is because foot binding originally began as a cultural practice among a small group of people in the 10th century. By the time of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), most social classes were practicing foot binding. Thus, what I'm trying to say is that the Finns are adopting a cultural practice (pronouns in their twitter bio) as a result of being exposed to another group of people doing it. The reasons for why they chose to adopt it, though....
- kazen44 5y agohasn't foot binding been dropped thanks to ruthless supression of the practice during maoist china?
- burntoutfire 5y agoPeople have adopted burgers, coca-cola, Hollywood movies etc. from The Current Dominant Culture, why wouldn't they parrot things like woke pronouns.
- nix23 5y ago>The Current Dominant Culture Haha, travel more buddy, the dominant culture is the country's own culture, not the one from the US. You know, the US adapted Beer and Sushi too. BTW: Movies, Games and "Social-media" is NOT Culture but cheap entertainment.
- pindab0ter 5y agoI live in the Netherlands and so much of what’s on TV, in cinemas is the games we play are American. It’s really inescapable. I’d easily call America the dominant culture in the west from my experience.
- SirGiggles 5y agoIt would be more accurate to instead call it cultural diffusion instead
- _zamorano_ 5y agoSpaniard here. Here, If you are aware of new wokeness trends in the US is question of about 3 months until the spanish left and media start parroting the new word, idea or whatever. The consumed culture is overwhelmingly US based. Netflix, social media... The local shows that happen to succeed, mostly are created due to legal obligations imposed by the goverment. If it were not for that...
- lemmsjid 5y agoAn obervation, though, is that the academic underpinnings of the “wokeness trends” you’re describing were very explicitly leveraging modern French philosophers. Don’t pretend Continental thinking did not have a string influence on the situation :). That’s to your first paragraph, I quite share your thoughts on your second one.
- concordDance 5y agoThe way American values have spread all around the world and started supplanting the native values is upsetting. Everything from commercialism and employment to attitudes towards nakedness and violence.
- Msw242 5y agoAmerica is number 1, baybeeee
- HatchedLake721 5y agohttps://youtu.be/4fTkA3dvpPM?t=1m35s https://youtu.be/4fTkA3dvpPM?t=1m35s
- projektfu 5y agoThe way “American values” have come to dominate America is upsetting. It used to be a diverse country with very different social geography in different regions. Now it’s mostly strip malls, chain stores and freeways, and most of it looks the same.
- Glide 5y agoCultural colonization
- foepys 5y agoMore like cultural imperialism.
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- heresie-dabord 5y ago> Woke Finns add American Pronouns to their twitter pages Social memia is the game of acquiring cheap prestige. Imitation of fleeting English fads is one such cheap use.
- odiroot 5y agoFunnily, it seems like some form of 21st century imperialism. But this time it's using cultural tools instead of guns.
- asdswe 5y agoYes. The fact this craziness is actually encouraged by Finnish state media as something normal nowadays is seriously starting to destroy my will to live in this country. Idiots are copying everything that's wrong with America here.
- Jommi 5y agoHow does adding pronouns really affect your life at all? Seems quite a small thing to get annoyed about, especially if it ends up helping someone else.
- vidarh 5y agoSpeaking as someone who has my pronouns on my Twitter page, the main purpose is to keep those who get bothered by it away, especially because it should be such a little thing that those that manage to get worked up over it are not people I'm interested in spending time on. I have no problem being on friendly terms with people who think it's a bit silly of me to have them there. But people who are so offended they don't want to follow me? Good riddance.
- pigeonhole123 5y agoDon’t you risk adding fuel to a pointless fire?
- vidarh 5y agoI tend to see it the opposite way: If it adds fuel, then that is evidence it's not pointless. If people just disagree and find it silly (and I did myself at one point), then that's their business. But using someones preferred pronoun is no different from trying to get their name right. It's basic respect and courtesy. That so many people take offence at being asked to show basic respect for others is the reason why so many people who have no personal use for putting our pronouns anywhere increasingly do so, to help normalise it. People don't need to like that. But if that's enough to fuel a fire, then let it burn.
- ggggoz 5y agoDo you mean English pronouns?
- angelzen 5y agoI have a friend in Europe who informed me matter-of-fact that American corporate explicitly asked them to sport pronouns in their social media profiles. Or else I suppose.
- reycharles 5y ago> Woke Finns add American Pronouns to their twitter pages. Could it be these Finns interact with English speaking tweeps?
- civilized 5y agoI am calling for a Finnish dictatorship until we have abolished gendered pronouns.
- dwb 5y agoAs someone who is very supportive of the current pronouns-consciousness, I agree.