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Heh, not surprising that comment isn't popular among the group of people who are currently exporting their worldview. Harder to see the harm in it when it's yo
by freshhawk 14y ago
Heh, not surprising that comment isn't popular among the group of people who are currently exporting their worldview.
Harder to see the harm in it when it's your culture that's becoming the monoculture. That's the "good one"!
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoI don't think that's entirely fair - we can safely assume the Chinese tech forum techsmth has a techie culture, because to the relevance of the rant. That does not mean they do not have heavy influences from their own (and from a quick surf-by Japanese) culture - lots of threads on photos from the 70s and what was it like then. They will export back. Just because all the money in Hollywood is forcing young pretty WASP vampires at us does not mean its the only way to express oneself
- freshhawk 14y agoYeah, it's not just a one way thing. "Western" culture and American in particular is mostly exporting at the moment. I just found it quite funny that a pro diversity comment was downvoted and so disagreed with (well, it was when I posted) here. The startup culture (that HN had a large part in defining) is extremely monolithic and really skewed to exporting ideas right now. Sure, it's happy to import arguments or small ideas from anywhere, but only if they don't disturb the core philosophy. I feel a powerful need to poke at people, especially smart ones, when they seem to be knee jerk supporting the status quo. Just a good/bad habit of mine.