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Cultural milestones make it here.
by godzillabrennus 3y ago
Cultural milestones make it here.
- defrost 3y agoMainly USofA cultural "milestones" with a lesser sprinkle of other G20 cultures.
- Barrin92 3y agoFriends is huge globally. When I lived in Beijing there was an actual "central perk" replica cafe you could go to, people were crazy about it. What made it so relatable everywhere was probably how cosmopolitan it was. It was very much not an overtly American show like say, Roseanne.
- defrost 3y agoRelative to your particular bubble - I'm Australian, I've travelled to about two thirds of the 190+ countries on the planet thanks to a career in global scale geophysics and mapping and I've yet to see a single episode of Friends .. I doubt I'd recognise Mathew Perry from a photo array. I'm not especially unique in the circles I know either, I swap a lot of TV episodes with others who have home entertainment NAS systems and it's not a series that gets much discussion - it has its fans, sure .. but its not the kind of thing that broadly hits the "must watch" lists.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoWhich percentage of HN is "non USA" / "non other G20"? G20 is 85% of the world's GDP and 2/3rd of the world's entire population. Something like 99% of HN's audience or something has to be from G20 countries.
- defrost 3y agoThe real question is of the non tech purely "cultural milestone" stories that make HN front page how many are USofA-centric. My gut feeling is the vast majority, with a small tail of UK, other European countries, rarely Australian, and far less often "elsewhere". There's no surprise there, HN is a US based website with a founding crowd interested in US startup funding and interests rippling outwards. By way of example, there are many Indian coders here .. can you name the last HN front page story about an Indian "Cultural Milestone" (there has been a few). I'd assert that these are relatively rare in the non tech cultural milestone HN front page spectrum.