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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.