The sad thing about the internet was it was supposed to bring people from different backgrounds together. Instead, it’s just an Americanization machine where the whole social media population is assimilated into the value system of a handful of California tech companies. Everywhere its just sameness.

>>2
Only Japan and maybe China have a culture industry that can rival the US. America is the world’s entertainer and its devastator.

>>4
I don’t think India can really compete outside of film, and even then Bollywood has become a minstrel show with a large number of Hindutva racist genre slop movies. Hong Kong and Shanghai have a great film and TV industry. What >>2 says, a ton of this is how the whole global order has been wired around America for decades and UN development agencies have rammed cultural Americanization down our throats for the same time. Its also a pain to get people enthusiastic about culture that isn’t American. The Japanese anime industry simply wouldn’t be popular if it suddenly emerged today because what it means to be fun and interesting is American. If something isn’t like the stuff Americans have, it sucks. In Gulf countries, they have a fuck ton of malls and fast food joints, and people like these things for some reason while traditional coffee houses are seen as inferior.

>>5
Not a nationalist. I just don’t like global culture being dictated by Zuckerberg, Bezos, Apple, Google, and Netflix. I don’t want a world where everyone dress the same, has identical values, and have the same beliefs. Difference is good.