• EndMilkInCrisps [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This map is interesting. I wonder what why there is more of a culture of reporting and/or realising reports of ufos in anglo countries. Probably some psyop.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That’s because the US likes to fly dangerous black op aircrafts in populated areas and carry out human experiments on citizens.

    • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's not even a mystery. UFO sightings and close encounters (understood to be extraterrestrials) were a creation of, and now a cultural relic of, the Cold War. UFO Sightings massively proliferated in the 1950s; the famous Betty and Barney Hill abduction, the first major reported such incident, wasn't until 1961.

      The real interesting bit is how close encounter narratives shifted to parrallel increasing US / USSR hostility. Early close encounter stories from the 60s had the aliens be peaceful and kind who would give contactees a tour of their spaceship. By the late 70s-80s that shifts to the Fire in The Sky style narrative where the aliens are forceful kidnappers who physically and sexually assault terrified abductees.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Anglos misinterpret the mysteries and wonders of nature as advanced space aliens because of their obsession with technological development to secure their own supremacy, very unenlightened.

      • hahafuck [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Dissociative Identity Disorder (split personalities) also seems to be an entirely American phenomenon.

        Please please expand on this. Actually if you have any book recs on this I will take them also

      • grobbo2 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Dissociative Identity Disorder (split personalities) also seems to be an entirely American phenomenon.

        The idea that Dissociative Identity Disorder is unique to the USA, the west, or developed countries is outdated. People with DID are found at similar rates throughout the globe. However, the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders is influenced by society and culture - one person's demonic possession is another's split personality.

        https://did-research.org/controversy/international

      • Commander_Data [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        DID is definitely real and a pretty normal reaction to extreme childhood trauma. If it's more prevalent in the anglosphere it's because :lmayo:s are sexually terrorizing kids more frequently.

      • Socialcreditscorr [they/them,she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Are you seriously implying Dissociative Identity Disorder isn't real to own the Anglos? Genuinely and sincerely go fuck yourself. :PIGPOOPBALLS: I can't believe im seeing something like this on this site its a like parody genuinely something I'd expect from a patsoc. Jesus christ.

        Edit: The fact that you also refered to it as "split personalitys" The levels of ableist brainworms on display.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Dissociative Identity Disorder (split personalities) also seems to be an entirely American phenomenon.

        I think you need to expand that to at least western. It might be called something different outside of America as many other countries use different systems to classify conditions but split personalities occur outside of the US as well.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Probably to do with all the media about it, would explain why countries like South Africa and Australia appear on here, access to all the UFO flicks

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I feel like it's because there's no underlying culture to explain it - where someone in other countries might interpret an alien through folklore (or conversely, what we see as aliens are in fact the folkloric figure, either way), :lmayo: s don't have that so it gets bucketed in their minds as an "alien" because that's all we got in a larger sense.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Cause others don’t read american crap, so don’t jump to :posad: when they see car in the night

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Probably some psyop.

      I can't believe nobody's mentioned this yet, but one major reason for the proliferation of UFO culture is literally a psyop. The CIA were testing the U2 spy plane in Area 51 in the 50s, and not only lied about sightings of their spy plane in order to cover it up, but gaslit certain prolific early UFO truthers in order to discredit everyone who was looking up and cataloguing every strange thing they saw. Some UFO sightings predate this - the CIA didn't invent the idea they just pumped it - but the sightings that are directly related to the U2's development turned it from an occasional thing that happened into an entire American subculture.