“you don’t get it, the usa is a fascist country full of government propaganda, and our rights as women and queer people are constantly attacked!! you have no idea what that’s like!!” i’m hungarian 👍
the brave oppressed american says under a post literally written by people from other countries. you don’t have access to it? you don’t have access to the information by the foreigners you’re currently whining about because they’re being too mean to you? on the world wide web?
you’re not going to get put on a list and disappeared for the crime of knowing mexico has cities. like get some fucking perspective.
So like. Fun fact.
Most countries actually focus on their own history and culture in the school curriculum. unless they’re directly affected by other countries in their history. For example, I’m not french, but I still had to learn about Napoleon. That guy was everywhere.
The US stands out because it’s a very new country (not even 250 years) and doesn’t have much history beyond that, because they were pretty insistent on genociding those who did have history in these lands. On that note, the US doesn’t really teach about inside the US either, but that doesn’t make you shut up about it, does it?
I’m almost tempted to read the above as satire because. You don’t watch foreign films?? Did you think Squid Game being about Koreans was a DEI measure? No foreign books? I mean even putting aside the semantic arguments of most “classics” being british and the bible technically being the bestselling book of all time while decidedly not originating from America, I want you to look me in the eyes and tell me you’ve never met anyone who read manga. You’re not exposed to foreign cultures??? Motherfucker you literally called your country a melting pot. (Or a salad bowl, depending on your cultural philosophy) Over 15% of people residing in the US are immigrants by the most strict definition of Not Being Born In The Country. This doesn’t even account for any second, third, or subsequent generation immigrants. (Bonus fun fact: Descendants of the original Colonizers would be up to 12th generation immigrants but the definition of a generation is flighty)
Do I look like I want to know all sorts of shit about the US? okay so im actually an american studies major so im an outlier adn shouldnt be counted but for the sake of argument, pretend that im not.
No!! But that shit happens to be relevant because we live in a globalized world. So i went ahead, looked it up, and fucking educated myself. I’m literally writing this in a language that’s foreign to me and I had to learn first.
And yeah, that’s not always easy. And yeah, it’s a bit scarier now. You’re going through some shit politically that’s very concerning. But so are other countries. There’s been a pretty much global shift to the right in recent years. Every country has some group hellbent on attacking civil rights. Yours just loves being in the global spotlight and has the geopolitical power to make it so. You have an insanely strong propaganda machine, but guess what!! Whining about the propaganda machine keeping you from learning about other cultures is literally the propaganda machine at work!! You’re just gonna sit on your ass and stay culturally isolated because the big guys said there’s nothing you can do about it??
Do better. Watch a K-Drama or something. Read something on wikipedia. Try figuring out why OP mentions being hungarian. Might be a bit of an eye opener.
