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Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

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hunglee2 ◴[02 Apr 23 17:47 UTC] No.35413150[source]▶
I think we (Americans and Europeans alike) wholly underestimate how Americanised European culture is becoming.

This is an observation rather than a criticism as I don't know whether this is 'good' or 'bad' but it is noticeable phenomena manifest through language, and probably an unintended consequence of the dependency of Europe on US communication technology, leading to the import of US communication styles, political priorities and cultural values.

France have always been conscious of this, no doubt as a result of their centuries old conflict with England, but it is interesting now to see Italian nationalists responding similarly. It's futile of course, as neither Italians, French nor any combination of European countries can or will make an internet independent of the US

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_vbnz ◴[02 Apr 23 17:59 UTC] No.35413290[source]▶
Yeah, it was shocking here in Stockholm when there were BLM protests in 2020.

It's like people are more involved in US politics than their national politics.

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forinti ◴[02 Apr 23 22:04 UTC] No.35415749[source]▶
I had to get books on MLK and Rosa Parks for my kid's school.

Why?? This drives me crazy. They are not part of my country's history and we have plenty of local heroes.

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1. slim ◴[03 Apr 23 05:27 UTC] No.35418888[source]▶
maybe they are studying racism ? racism can't be studied on the local level alone. it looks like you're from Brazil. Brazil has a common history with US with regards to enslavement and import of africans, for example.