Totally buying the touristy theme park version of whatever other culture. No, the people at the resort don’t actually think you’re great. No, tripping with a self-proclaimed shaman who charges a month’s local wage to resolve your mommy issues is not how the locals do mysticism.
Does the self-proclaimed shaman actually resolve mommy issues though? Asking for a friend.
They’re primary job is to take your money, and make you believe you’ve been initiated into the new-agey secrets of the jungle and enlightened so you recommend them to other aggressively white idiots.
I’d stick with the real mental health professionals.
Acting that everyone on Reddit/Lemmy is American.
The Netherlands is just as much a part of the West.
“immigration is why our lives are getting worse”
Very clear indicator that someone has barely attempted to understand how the world works
I mean yeah thats a good indication, but thinking about it, many asian countries also have this same feeling. So is it a westernized thought process or just “people are stupid as fuck” problem. I lean on the latter.
It’s a racism problem, which one might argue is people being stupid as fuck.
It’s a capitalist problem. As long as the billionaire class keeps us fighting a culture war amongst ourselves, we won’t realize that the actual war is a class war against them.
There are only two classes. The billionaires and the rest of us (that they call “labour”). If you can convince the labour class that they are divided by race, religion, etc… they’ll be too busy blaming each other to come burn down your mansion.
anything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
Okay I’ll bite. So the asian-african industrial revolution?
The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago
Cool. Seriously!
But if it didn’t change history (did they even genocide??! /s ) then we won’t learn it in base school I guess.
I don’t really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?
Valmond is legitimately curious and reinforces the issue with westernized learning, the only history taught is very basic colonization and your home countries history. The problem is worldwide, if it isnt related to your country or white history in general, you need to perform extracurricular learning to get an understanding of actual history.
You taught them something they didnt know
I explained why we don’t learn that in school. Don’t you understand what I’m saying? I’m not a native English speaker.
“Nambia”
MM/dd/yyyy date format by default on software
Worst format ever. It should either be dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd
yyyy/mm/dd
YYYY-MM-DD
Standard is for dashes in ISO8601.
ISO-8601. Accept no compromise.
The worst?? Try mm/yy/dd, and you’ll regret everything in your life.
oh god my eyes
MM/YY/DDD (Ordinal date)
Omg who uses that?
Me, for the April Fools release for one of my projects.
No one who survived the attempt to require others to use it.
Okay now that IS the worst, good point
What fresh evil is this?
Goodness gracious, it gives me an aneurysm every time I set up a new computer with the en_US locale or have to fill out forms with that date format.
date +%sthis is just the USA, not the whole west
Case in point
This is just the madlads in the US
Someone once tole me only Western hippies believe in alternative medicine
When alternative medicine works, we call it medicine.
Example?
Acupuncture, leech therapy, meditation/yoga are the only ones I can think of. If theres someone reading with an interest in medical history I’d be willing to bet theres a list longer than Ron Jeremy
I have some friends in Asia who are obsessed with it as well though.
Because you don’t live in Western bubble
I’m living in the west of Europe though.
In the west - yeah? Obviously third worlders also believe in various miracle healers and televangelist preachers and such, but those countries too have scientific minds and communities and bodies that practice evidence-based, aka “western” modern medicine.
Maybe more of a US bubble but American software never considers that people might be multi lingual and public transport is always disregarded.
Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.
Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
Those are just examples, there are many more examples in software where you can notice some 20 year old US tech bro came up with it whose never been to a different country.
Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.
I actually have the opposite problem. Sometimes when googling something I get auto translated results (mostly reddit posts tho), and a week ago the YouTube app on my phone decided to auto translate English video titles.
No, I DON’T want your shitty Dutch auto translation. Give me the original English. I am not English illiterate and you 100% know it, Google.
Even worse. Recently I was watching a video in Dutch, and it decided to automatically translate the sound to English. AI generated. That was just…it sounded so fucked up.
And why does YouTube think it needs to do that? If I want that, I’ll so it myself.
What the fuck, I’m glad that hasn’t happened to me yet
Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
This reminded me of a few months ago when I went to Milan with a friend. I used Organic Maps for getting around and they used Gmaps. Their phone was always trying to get us to walk as little as possible, using EVERY possible combination of metro, tram and busses for even the shortest trips, it was insane. Change bus here, ride one stop, get on the metro, change to the other line, get back on a bus, take the tram, it never ended. Same trip on organic maps was 3 changes on the metro and a 5 minute walk at the end.
Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
Maybe its a personal experience or a US problem, but when I was in Japan Google Maps was a godsend for navigating the subway and railway system. I learned quickly to trust that system because they had rail cars coming and going constantly. Ignoring the system caused me to get onto the right train, but that train was a full service train saand stopped at each individual station. Had I waited 2 minutes as directed I would have gotten on the limited service train and arrived at my destination many minutes faster.
I had never noticed public transport stops being missing in maps, but that is probably because there are no public transport stops where I live. I had noticed it always greys out the bus when I ask for directions though.
Failing to have a coherent understanding of how imperialism works. A lot of westerners seem to think they live in developed countries developed purely by their own industry, while not realizing how financial capital continues to plunder the global south.
Any resource you could recommend for someone who wants a better understanding of this?
Yes, actually! I wrote an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, you can skip straight to the “imperialism” section. It’ll be a bit difficult to jump straight there without the other sections, but it won’t be impossible. If you only read one, it should be Lenin’s Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism | Audiobook, which is by far the most clear and important work on the subject. The only problem is that imperialism has developed quite a lot since Lenin wrote it, and the US Empire is now unquestionably the top dog. For more on that, I recommend Michael Hudson’s Super-Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance.
If you only want a quick overview, though, Prolewiki’s article on imperialism is really good by itself.
Thank you for the quality resource! I realized I already had this saved but haven’t gotten to that section yet o7.
No problem! It’s a fair bit into the list because imperialism is both the number 1 most important contradiction in the world today, and quite an advanced topic when first delving into Marxism. If you already have the list saved, and have the time and willingness, I suggest following it the standard way - it’s much easier to understand when you have the background info!
I knew I had you tagged as Marxist - Leninist Bro for a reason ;P, properly appreciate the effort you’ve put into it. Yes, following the list as outlined is my intent - excited to delve into the imperialist section now, it’s something I’ve not put much intention towards learning beforehand, as such it’s awesome you’ve put together something so comprehensive.
Appreciate the kind words, thanks!
sometimes not acknowledging it even exists.
Definitely true as well.
Paraphrasing, but:
- “Truth does not exist, only opinions, and they’re all equally valid.”
- “Morality is fundamentally relative.” (It follows from the former, I guess.)
- “Every tribe/culture has always been/remains equally brutal, bloodthirsty, hedonistic, nihilistic, imperialistic and selfishly amoral.”
- “There are no differences between the sexes besides the physical ones.” (And even that one is denied at times, for instance when it comes to transexual athletes)
- “Love, making a lifetime commitment to your partner and raising kids are not (nor should they be) of major relevance in people’s lives.” (And if you even mention it you’re a control freak, limiting women’s freedom and whatnot)
- “You gotta take care of yourself first and foremost!” (the Divine and the collective come second and third, if they’re thought of at all, to the self, and only the self is truly worthy of attention)
Crocs
“If your poor its because you didn’t try hard enough”
Even in the west that one doesn’t stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share
I agree that’s the reality here, but that doesn’t mean people will acknowledge it. I mean… look at what people who are willfully ignorant and/or intentionally hateful have done to the west. They’re still saying shit like “better work harder, scrub” even though that’s complete bullshit and applies just as much to them as anyone else.
Yeah that one is less a ‘westernism’ and more a ‘1%er-ism’
Literally anything MAGA says
Their attitudes towards elderly parents. I’ve been told I shouldn’t worry about helping them in their old age because they had their chance to work and save for retirement and so it’s their responsibility of it’s not enough. Except… They didn’t. They migrated here with nothing, provided for THEIR parents their whole lives, and did the best they could for me, which left them with next to nothing. Westerners assume everyone boomer aged or so had the same opportunities that their parents had. The nuclear family is also very hands-off about caring for the elderly. That’s not how most of the world operates. Plus, it’s so sad!
Jaysus
Yep, same in the UK. We’ve abandoned our elderly and seemingly can’t wait for our kids to leave so that we enjoy maybe 10 years of watching TV and not working before we die.
In other, less ‘developed’ countries the family is a unit. The elderly help with the infants (which has been proven to be mutually beneficial), while the rest of the family works or helps maintain the household. There’s way less likelyhood of abandonment or lonliness in old age, which in my country is endemic.
An LGBT group that advocates for a country that executes LGBT people, or even just people suspected of being queer. It was a very depressing double take.
That was years ago. Now, little surprises me. Humans are idiots and are extremely shortsighted when it comes to climate change and politics. It will be interesting to see if we can salvage things before there is a large scale ecosystem collapse.
Unlike Interstellar, there’s no portal that’s going to give us access to other earth-like worlds.
I would like to submit, for the question in the post, “thinking opposing the literal extermination of an entire country means uncritically supporting every single policy of the country’s government”
Can’t be gay when you’re blown to pieces by Israeli missiles can you?
The best outcome for queer Palestinians is the dissolution of the fascist Zionist state killing far more of them than any resistance group. After being free from genocide, social progress happens far faster. Israel completing its genocide means no more queer Palestinians.
True, that really took off in Iran after they kicked the west out decades ago.
Iran is under intense sanctions and is targeted heavily by fascist warmongering, which also stunts social progress. They’d be set back if they fell to western imperialism. You could just as easily point to Cuba, whose family code is now among the most progressive in the world. Meanwhile, you’re advocating for the genocide of Palestinians and siding with fascists. Do some major self-crit, you’re indistinguishable from fascists.
Israel kills far more Palestinian gays than Palestine does
Israel has executed at least three orders of magnitude more LGBT people than Palestine ever did.
Which LGBT group and which country are you talking about?
