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sohois
3hr ago
I can't believe this Reddit tier joke has made it to a motte thread. Aside from being a decade old and barely funny the first time, it's not even accurate.
cjet79
3hr ago
We just fundamentally disagree here. I don't see any path to reconciliation. I didn't realize there was such a large disconnect on the meaning and essence of culture.
But this is also a values disconnect. It's subjective.
SkoomaDentist
3hr ago
2rafa
3hr ago
There are a literal handful of good sushi places in Budapest, the reality of having to fly in the good stuff does limit you relatively far inland. That said, it might have the cheapest Nobu in the world, which I’ve always found interesting.
Blueberry
3hr ago
It is easy to find counter the argument. You can eat a Big Mac in Jakarta, but that doesn't mean there are a lot of US-American migrants in Indonesia. Most places who make Lasagna are not operated by Italians. There are good sushi places in Budapest, even though there is no big japanese diaspora in Hungary. It just means Sushi is delicious.
cjet79
3hr ago
Generally American corporations have spread to everywhere they are allowed.
Poor countries often have more rules and operating a legal business without bribing a bunch of people is impossible. International corporations are unwilling to cross that line for good reasons.
I feel that calling corruption incompetence is disingenuous. Most European nations were equally impossible to operate in legally a few centuries ago. That's just how poor economies and politics tend to mingle.
faceh
4hr ago
Yep. That was the 'trap' I laid in that argument, if someone objects that Ottomans weren't representative. The other examples are worse. Just look at what the Moors did to Spain. Although Christians ultimately returned that favor.
There's some parallels to be drawn WRT to English/American conquest of various Native American tribes... but you can note that once the victory was secure the Americans permit the tribes to continue to exist and maintain a distinct culture as best they can, which has persisted to this day.
Lizzardspawn
4hr ago
Just like Theranos
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4hr ago
I think the Chinese - to avoid entangling themselves not only in foreign conflicts with America but with various other countries besides - have overtly toned down political content on TikTok
I don't think that the intent matters to the Zionist (non-pejorative) caucus. If TikTok had a purely meritocratic algorithm that prioritized views and engagement and it promoted Palestinian content because it's what their users engage with, I don't think it would change the reality for Netanyahu and friends. They would still want the app banned or censored, they don't put any moral priority on the idea that this is what people want to see, or what maximizes engagement/profit for TikTok. They value the Zionist project, they value the Jewish people, they value their own political power. All they want is a fair advantage.
black bears also very rarely hunt people.
A friend of mine had a black bear break his leg years ago. He heard a noise on his porch and went out to investigate. He spooked a poor black bear so badly that it took off running and knocked my friend clean off the porch.
Primaprimaprima
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4hr ago
Can I ask where you live and your cultural background?
I live in America and I like anime.
This makes sense when meals lack value beyond base nutritional requirements and expedience.
Can a meal -- particularly a certain type of meal, repeated by custom on a certain schedule, with the appropriate pomp and circumstance, etc -- be imbued with deep ritualistic significance? Indubitably. But then, it's not just the literal food that acts as the "bearer" of culture alone in this case, but the body of ritual surrounding it, and the network of social and historical relations that that ritual exists in.
Immigrants coming to the US to sell their wares like any other fungible anonymized commodity on the free market would then represent the destruction of culture rather than its continuance, because the network of human relations that constituted the actual center of culture has been obviated. (At the very least, people who think that eating lasagna is the same thing as "experiencing another culture" are actually doing nothing of the sort.)
What other lens would they use at that point?
jkf
4hr ago
I mean he was in the Olympics, it shouldn't be hard to dig up some "evidence of published material about [him] in ... other major media"?
SkoomaDentist
4hr ago
accidentally walking between a cub and mother at precisely the wrong time.
Finland has a fairly sizeable brown bear population (grizzly is basically the same species, just somewhat larger) but unprovoked bear attacks are really rare. A brief search through a national news site shows that there was only one unprovoked attack within the last 10 years and that wasn't serious (the bear struck a guy who fell down, after which the bear left and the guy got off with a few scratches). The rest have all been hunting situations gone bad or a dog aggravating a bear and the owner getting attacked when trying to fend off the bear (and even then they've been very rare). If you make noise and look around, the bears will just hide and avoid you.
Corvos
4hr ago
Not complaining, just appending! I want British food to be more generally known, I think there's a lot to offer. We just need to find a format that works.
A friend noted that English food would have been eaten much more communally in the old days, buffet / feast style - it was much easier to do portion control when you had a table full of pies and hams and cakes and things and you just took a little of each and the rest went back for the next day.
NewCharlesInCharge
4hr ago
The back of the house in your authentic ethnic restaurants are mostly staffed by Mexicans and Central Americans.
I don’t know what point I’m making here, but the idea that we need immigrants for culinary diversity is somewhat incongruous with the homogeneity of who cooks the food.
faceh
4hr ago
Yep.
But then you look at Russia.
Part of the reason I limited my point to "The Anglosphere."
ZanarkandAbesFan
4hr ago
And yet we manage!
SkoomaDentist
4hr ago
Good insect repellent. I'm surprised you say that "he most dangerous critters you will encounter are the two-legged kind" when where I live the biggest danger by far is from ticks.
I could see a pocket knife be useful for all kinds of other things. If you're worried about wild dogs, a good flashlight and large stick should help fend them off. For the rest you've basically already lost (eg. a bear encounter or some redneck with a shotgun) or extremely unlucky. Maybe a flare gun or pepper spray?
fritz-iv
4hr ago
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” (apparently, Harry Truman)
Likewise, it's a beautiful white lie when the privileged get taught a hard lesson, and it's an absurd destructive falsehood when the lesson arrives on your doorstep.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
4hr ago
Aside from language, what is more foundational to the lived experience of a culture than its food?
Off the top of my head: attitudes and practices surrounding religion, childbearing (are you encouraged to even have kids at all, or at you an antinatalist?), cohabitation with immediate family and/or extended family, career choice (are you encouraged to stick with the family business, or do you have an individualist culture where "doing your own thing" is an aspiration?), different types of long-term planning (are you a square if you refuse to blow your paycheck right away, or are you an idiot if you do blow it?), respect towards elders and superiors (how unthinkable would it be to challenge your boss's ideas during a meeting?), freedom of speech and freedom of artistic expression, sexual ethics, etc.
To be clear, there is no "lived experience of a culture" for a tourist on a one week vacation, that's an absurdity. The "lived experience of a culture" can only unfold over a lifetime. A culture is a concrete mode of life, as distinguished from other possible concrete modes of life.
Food is not culture. Foot binding, widow burning, jus primae noctis -- that's culture. To the extent that we increasingly find genuine cultural difference to be unimaginable, this is only a statement about the shrinking horizon of our imagination, and not a statement about the nature of culture.
My favorite ways to use the tech thus far:
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Producing truly weird Genre mashups. Japanese Folk Music + Bagpipes? Mariachi Sea Shanties? Oops, almost forgot: Heavy Metal Ska.
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Producing novel content in the vein of certain genres or bands of the past that I miss/wish had more content.
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Converting songs between genres with as few changes to the melody as possible to hear how the emotional tenor of the song changes even if the lyrics and melody (mostly) don't.
Strange sense of nostalgia to hear something that very easily could have come out during your childhood, even though you know with 100% certainty that you never heard it before this moment.
mottizen_kane
4hr ago
Bowling Alone etc.
What does that have to do with immigration?
There is a large abundance of beginner resources for any language out there, and yes chatgpt is fine for this sort of grammar explanation tasks. But this is not a human tutor that can converse with you or give you reading tasks with a specific goal in mind, noticing and focusing on your weaknesses etc. You have to be your own tutor and can get some help from chatgpt
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