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> the internet and cultural hegemony of the US will go into overdrive with all models churning out only US-centric views I saw a fascinating outcome of this at
by Swizec 2y ago
> the internet and cultural hegemony of the US will go into overdrive with all models churning out only US-centric views
I saw a fascinating outcome of this at a conference recently. Polish speaker made an IRS joke to a room full of Europeans at a conference in Europe. Everyone got it.
- kolinko 2y agoThat’s true. As a Polish person I will often say “IRS” or “polish IRS”, when I mean a more generic “tax office”.
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoDo you really live in Poland? I'm a foreigner (well, not any more) and I've been always calling it urzad skarbowy even when speaking with other foreigners. If I called it IRS, no one would understand it.
- vasco 2y agoI have the weird situation where in my country the IRS is called the IRS even though the letters stand for words in my language for "income tax" it ends up being the same acronym and its used interchangeably with the actual name of the government entity.