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It is a bit yes. I've not been to Switzerland but I know that in Belgium this is totally not done. Flemish speakers often despise French culture and vice versa.
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
It is a bit yes. I've not been to Switzerland but I know that in Belgium this is totally not done. Flemish speakers often despise French culture and vice versa. And have their own TV channels, shows, media personalities etc. I'm Dutch myself and am often viewed as Flemish by the French speakers when I try to speak French, and I can feel the hate (it's quite uncomfortable so I don't usually go to their parts).
Also, Netflix already shows so little in their overview, making half of them non-starters is really annoying. The world is not a cookie cutter duplicate of America with just some different language settings. There should be an option for local differences (not just this one but ones that exist in many countries). It's just a total disregard of national and regional cultural differences too.
In fact I'm quite surprised the US has such a harmonised culture because they have huge differences too. I just can't wrap my head around how a Silicon Valley hipster can be just as offended by half a boob on TV than a methodist Midwestern. Though only for the latter it's an actual cultural and religious issue. The level of cultural harmonisation despite all the regional differences is something that's pretty unique in the US I believe. I've travelled a lot and I've not seen this in other countries.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> It's just a total disregard of national and regional cultural differences too. That surprises me - Netflix seem pretty good at accommodating UK culture as a contrast. Local shows like The Crown, for example.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoSome local productions yes. They do that in every EU country too because it's in fact an EU requirement to do so. But the UK is culturally much more similar to America than the rest of Europe. For us there should just be a preferred language setting instead of just dumping the user in a certain box because of the IP they connect from.
- brimble 5y agoHuh—I never saw Netflix' British content as accommodating UK culture, but as accommodating American Anglophilia. Same reason they have a ton of Japanese content. Maybe it's both, I suppose.