| ▲ | Pay08 5 hours ago |
| Language is the biggest thing that defines culture. Do you want the Netherlands to perform some sort of countrywide assimilation into British or American culture? |
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| ▲ | Aaargh20318 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yes, I’m a huge proponent of global unification. It’s ridiculous that we have different cultures, languages and laws based on between which imaginary lines on a map you live. Countries make no sense to me. Look at the current situation in Iran. Everyone on the planet is affected by the actions of a president we didn’t vote for. Earth should be a single country. |
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| ▲ | lentil_soup 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | What a sad world where we all have the same culture and language. There's many concepts that don't translate from one language to the next, they form a way of looking at the world. What about foods, and stories and music, nah, sounds terrible. I also want one big world for all but definitely not a single culture or language | | |
| ▲ | LinXitoW 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | So there's only one single culture in all english speaking countries? A unified language does not in any way imply a boring or "assimilated" culture. Dutch people can still ask their closest friend to Venmo them 2 bucks for the fries they took earlier, germans can still make and drink objectively better beer, and the french can still be black and white and smoking a cigarette. But just in english instead. | | |
| ▲ | lentil_soup 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | OP literally advocated for having a single culture. And you missed the part I said about how different human concepts don't exist in all languages, do we just not have those? Language is an integral part of different cultures, not the only one, but a pretty big one. Can't believe I'm having to defend this. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Language is the biggest thing that defines culture Lots of countries would disagree with this. Do you not think Peru and Spain has distinct cultures for example? Why/why not? |
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| ▲ | mihaelm 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Small countries are already doing this through the Internet since so much of the consumed content is in English. |
