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> This is digital imperialism, American ideas and values are inconspicuously spread through memes (in the original sense of the term) and foreign children, teen

> This is digital imperialism, American ideas and values are inconspicuously spread through memes (in the original sense of the term) and foreign children, teenagers and young adults are raised on them. This has been going on since missionaries, perhaps going back to the original Apostles, started travelling the planet: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227902 The fact that it is now American, as opposed to some European country, is just a recent phenomenon.

TylerLives 4y ago
Imo, the problem isn't that cultures influence other cultures, but the speed at which this now happens. I like many parts of American culture but I don't think that it should be the only culture. For a smaller group to develop and preserve its identity, it needs time and some amount of isolation. Not sure how this could happen in the modern world, but wouldn't it be great to be able to go somewhere and see people with different scientific ideas, art, technology, philosophy etc?