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Here in Brazil this year I saw a bunch of Black November. Yes, in english, in a country where people normally don't know english. Even weirder, is today a cosm

Here in Brazil this year I saw a bunch of Black November. Yes, in english, in a country where people normally don't know english. Even weirder, is today a cosmetics company said that "Black Friday" (in english like that!) is a racist name and they are comitted to changing it. Most people here don't even know what "Black" means. (or "Friday", for that matter). The amount of USA culture "invading" our culture is really disturbing me. (alongside some other stuff like Coca-Cola in fur coat red santa, in the middle of our super hot summers, or people trying to plant conifer trees in sunny wetlands and then covering them with artificial snow, or the dish "Rosquinha", that got renamed "Donut" after Dunkin Donuts came here). EDIT: remembered that some years ago the government made illegal for stores to write only in english on their storefronts, after there was a huge mania for writing "xxx% off on randomproduct" and this was causing confusion among consumers that had no idea what that means.

ericmay 5y ago
It’s alright. After Black Friday loses influence you can do singles day and buy stuff from Alibaba instead shrug
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  I've seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi here in Germany. Don't know what to make of it. Wouldn't want to have colored powders having thrown at me.
  - unmole 5y ago
    > Wouldn't want to have colored powders having thrown at me. How about drinking cannabis infused milkshakes instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang
Swizec 5y ago
Similar stuff happened in Slovenia since the 90’s. When I was in elementary school we started celebrating Christmas and imported Santa, thus creating three, 3!, winter men who bring gifts (the catholic Saint Nick, the american Santa, the communist Grandpa Frost). Then some time in high school Halloween became a thing. Even overtaking Nov 1st as the day of the dead because it’s a party and day of the dead is sad, lame, and for old people. Towards the end of college, black friday started to become a thing. Sometimes I wonder if college kids aregoing to start having July 4th parties …
systemvoltage 5y ago
It's no longer USA culture. Used to be a few decades ago when Nike and Coke was exported. Today, it is a giant global corporate-driven monoculture. US has influx of many other cultures too (Sushi restaurants were hardly a thing in the 90's and Yoga). To be honest, the world has gotten worse with globalisation and I don't mean that in the slightest political sense. Purely from cutural standpoint, the internet has sort of ruined isolated pockets of culture that thrive independently. In 2050, it will just be a giant same-everywhere Earth culture that will suck, even more so than today.
xwolfi 5y ago
It s like in my company, useless morons (it's always them) scold us when we say blacklist. Like dude, black is the color of the night, it's the absence of color, it's the color of when it's cold and scary, ofc it can used to mean "bad list", and pointing out all the time africans happen to be black (because this color also has the property to resist the sun better) is what makes the link. Not me in Hong Kong saying in a random email "I added the server to the blacklist"... If some people where red, saying red flag would be a problem I m sure (red being the color of blood, no surprise it means danger).
LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
That's globalism for you. Multinational big corps pushing their shit globally, all the times ;-> Saúde!

ericmay 5y ago

It’s alright. After Black Friday loses influence you can do singles day and buy stuff from Alibaba instead shrug

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
I've seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi here in Germany. Don't know what to make of it. Wouldn't want to have colored powders having thrown at me.
- unmole 5y ago
  > Wouldn't want to have colored powders having thrown at me. How about drinking cannabis infused milkshakes instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang

Swizec 5y ago

Similar stuff happened in Slovenia since the 90’s. When I was in elementary school we started celebrating Christmas and imported Santa, thus creating three, 3!, winter men who bring gifts (the catholic Saint Nick, the american Santa, the communist Grandpa Frost). Then some time in high school Halloween became a thing. Even overtaking Nov 1st as the day of the dead because it’s a party and day of the dead is sad, lame, and for old people. Towards the end of college, black friday started to become a thing. Sometimes I wonder if college kids aregoing to start having July 4th parties …

systemvoltage 5y ago

It's no longer USA culture. Used to be a few decades ago when Nike and Coke was exported. Today, it is a giant global corporate-driven monoculture. US has influx of many other cultures too (Sushi restaurants were hardly a thing in the 90's and Yoga). To be honest, the world has gotten worse with globalisation and I don't mean that in the slightest political sense. Purely from cutural standpoint, the internet has sort of ruined isolated pockets of culture that thrive independently. In 2050, it will just be a giant same-everywhere Earth culture that will suck, even more so than today.

xwolfi 5y ago

It s like in my company, useless morons (it's always them) scold us when we say blacklist. Like dude, black is the color of the night, it's the absence of color, it's the color of when it's cold and scary, ofc it can used to mean "bad list", and pointing out all the time africans happen to be black (because this color also has the property to resist the sun better) is what makes the link. Not me in Hong Kong saying in a random email "I added the server to the blacklist"... If some people where red, saying red flag would be a problem I m sure (red being the color of blood, no surprise it means danger).

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago

That's globalism for you. Multinational big corps pushing their shit globally, all the times ;-> Saúde!