The US government is one of the most powerful in history
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The US government is one of the most powerful in history
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The US government is one of the most powerful in history
@burnoutqueen@todon.nl I'm British. 17 years ago, I was supposed to get married and move to America. I had spent a lot of time over there and made a lot of friends. This was Maryland. (I loved Baltimore, the diverse culture there, but I could never deal with how systematically racist and elitist the middle class suburbs were - it was alien too me). A few years after that, I realized just how much of a bullet I had missed. This year, I realize that If I had moved then, I would be back home in the UK already anyway.
I don't want to be insulting to anyone, as some Americans have been the most amazing people I've ever known. But that attitude of "we are the most important and powerful people in the world", alongside actually really being the most generally ignorant and isolated people in the world also, is exactly the reason why I'm so glad I didn't end up there.
(And that's not to say my own country is actually that much better to be fair). -
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@burnoutqueen@todon.nl I'm British. 17 years ago, I was supposed to get married and move to America. I had spent a lot of time over there and made a lot of friends. This was Maryland. (I loved Baltimore, the diverse culture there, but I could never deal with how systematically racist and elitist the middle class suburbs were - it was alien too me). A few years after that, I realized just how much of a bullet I had missed. This year, I realize that If I had moved then, I would be back home in the UK already anyway.
I don't want to be insulting to anyone, as some Americans have been the most amazing people I've ever known. But that attitude of "we are the most important and powerful people in the world", alongside actually really being the most generally ignorant and isolated people in the world also, is exactly the reason why I'm so glad I didn't end up there.
(And that's not to say my own country is actually that much better to be fair).@shye the US government is powerful in the sense that it has effectively crushed almost every challenge to its power, it has gotten away with multiple genocides, and it has literally terrorized the world for almost a century.
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@shye the US government is powerful in the sense that it has effectively crushed almost every challenge to its power, it has gotten away with multiple genocides, and it has literally terrorized the world for almost a century.
@burnoutqueen@todon.nl Sorry, I rambled completely off topic to your post. I think what I was getting at, is that such a majority of Americans have been oblivious to how their country has affected the rest of the world. How much damage 'Americanization' has done to world culture.
To use my own country again as an example. There is a massive difference between British culture in the 70's, and the 80's, because Britain, and Western Europe was bombarded with American Media and capitalism. The 'American Dream' even then had to eat into the rest of the world to continue to exist, because all it can do is consume, and turn all into consumers.
But yes. What is happening in America right now. All I see is an exacerbation of what it has actually always been. But it is also a mirror being put in front of people, and I can only hope people see how ugly the reflection actually is. -
@burnoutqueen@todon.nl Sorry, I rambled completely off topic to your post. I think what I was getting at, is that such a majority of Americans have been oblivious to how their country has affected the rest of the world. How much damage 'Americanization' has done to world culture.
To use my own country again as an example. There is a massive difference between British culture in the 70's, and the 80's, because Britain, and Western Europe was bombarded with American Media and capitalism. The 'American Dream' even then had to eat into the rest of the world to continue to exist, because all it can do is consume, and turn all into consumers.
But yes. What is happening in America right now. All I see is an exacerbation of what it has actually always been. But it is also a mirror being put in front of people, and I can only hope people see how ugly the reflection actually is.@burnoutqueen@todon.nl I remember back in 2008, sat in someones kitchen in Philadelphia. They asked me if I had ever seen a Microwave before, and went on to demonstrate how a Microwave worked. Despite the fact that microwaves first existed here in the UK in the 1960's, decades before I was even born. And this was after people had been quoting Mary Poppins too me. An American Disney Movie with American actors stereotyping the British.
There are many very intelligent Americans of course, some of which have been close friends of mine for 20 plus years. But just to illustrate how isolated and kept dumb many Americans actually are. And THAT is the general perspective that most Europeans have of Americans in general. I hope this is realized. -
@burnoutqueen@todon.nl Sorry, I rambled completely off topic to your post. I think what I was getting at, is that such a majority of Americans have been oblivious to how their country has affected the rest of the world. How much damage 'Americanization' has done to world culture.
To use my own country again as an example. There is a massive difference between British culture in the 70's, and the 80's, because Britain, and Western Europe was bombarded with American Media and capitalism. The 'American Dream' even then had to eat into the rest of the world to continue to exist, because all it can do is consume, and turn all into consumers.
But yes. What is happening in America right now. All I see is an exacerbation of what it has actually always been. But it is also a mirror being put in front of people, and I can only hope people see how ugly the reflection actually is.@shye @burnoutqueen
Looks that way from here too.
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@shye @burnoutqueen
Looks that way from here too.@davidarnell@mastodon.world @burnoutqueen@todon.nl My Great Grandma married a Native American (Canadian territory) and I have family in Canada. My Aunt is one of my me favorite people, who lives in Alberta.
