• AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    truly an amazing feature of hegemonic culture is having to do double-takes on every fratty white guy because they might've been one you'd seen before

    US needs balkanized stat so regional fashion can return

    • 389aaa [it/its]
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      4 years ago

      Cultural homogeneity is the way of the future because of the ever-increasing globalization driven by ever-improving communications technology getting into an ever-larger number of hands. The existence of a cultural hegemony is inevitable in such a world, we're never gonna go back to how it was.

      • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        not if i have anything to say about it 🔫💣🚬

        actually tho y'know how socialist states fund the preservation of minority cultures? that writ large could eventually rediversify and fight homogenity

        • 389aaa [it/its]
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          4 years ago

          I mean, I think that'd delay it, but I'm talking about a very long-term process here. Like, this shit is gonna happen on the same timescale that things like 'all languages more-or-less melding into one SUPERLANGUAGE because of the long-term contact and cultural exchange from globalization'. It's the kind of material process that's basically unstoppable just because of how culture, like, works.

          Edit: You probably would still have significantly different regional/local dialects mind, but the massive increase in language-similarity is still inevitable.

          • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            i don't agree. culture does not automatically coalese, languages rarely naturally combine, and technology can be applied both to aid homogenity or avert it.