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MOOMANiBE
@MOOMANiBE

if you're about to write a culture post and considering using the word "western" to describe said culture, consider if what you actually mean is "american", if it is, use that instead.

Does your case apply to France? Spain? Finland? Poland? If your answer is "I have no idea, I'm just writing about my culture (america)" then just say american, seriously


MrMandolino
@MrMandolino

I really don't want to do a Tumblr-style "this goes out to all Americans" post, but if you're American, I desperately need you to realize you're part of the culture that's currently having near total cultural hegemony.

I'm Italian. When I go to the cinema, the vast majority of movies I can watch are American movies, with an audience that's being trained to expect American movies, because American movies are what can use the biggest budget to have the best visual effects and the best artists working in the business -- because American movies can sell all over the globe, while Italian movies can only sell to an extremely limited audience and, at most, hope for an American remake. I'm seeing the effect of English slowly morphing my language into something that's a mixture of the two -- linguistics nerd tangent, "to play a game" in Italian is expressed as "to play to a game" (giocare a un gioco), but it's losing the "to" and turning into a transitive verb because it's a transitive verb in English -- as the gaming space, in which I work, is pretty much adopting America as its core foundation.

Back when I worked in marketing, I had my superior tell me, with an incredibly serious approach, "I need you to write this for a global market. That means American."

When an American says "western", what they (often) mean is American, without even realizing that the actual meaning of that word is "the world we shaped to resemble America."

Edited to add: the irony I can only communicate with everyone in here in English isn't lost on me.


smallcreature
@smallcreature

All of these things described above are also happening in France.
The french queer community is also taking tons of words straight from english with barely an attempt at translating them. People even obsess over "pronouns" even the language is gendered in many more ways than pronouns



SleepyC420
@SleepyC420

Hey yall my fiance and mine's EBT refills tomorrow but we have no funds or anything in the house to eat for today. We don't need a lot and only need enough to get by until tomorrow, anything helps.

Ty in advance to anyone who donates or reposts. ❤️

We got enough to get us through the day ty everyone. Any new donations would go to saving up for cat supplies. :)