The internet as a whole is pretty US centric
There are however exceptions (for example: china)
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Please. Let it diversify.
As a US dweller, I'd love it to be anything but US centric.
It would already be nice if posts specified they are about the USA instead of just blurping out something about "the civil war" for example instead of "the USA civil war".
One can dream!
Do you agree that Israel should stop receiving any and all US aid and end the genocide on Palestine?
How the fuck is that related to this thread?
This is one of my main motivations to learn other languages. The internet is tedious if you only speak English.
I see German content here all the time, even though I don't understand it or follow it.
I've blocked so much german.
𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔴𝔥𝔶?
It’s either that or learn German and I’m way too busy scrolling for that.
I've accidentally learned a good amount of German from lemmy, actually. I didnt mean to, but from similar words, to looking up Rammstein lyrics, I had a base. From that base, and context, I'm actually learning a good bit of German without intention. Sometimes I read a German headline and it takes me a second to realize I'm reading German. I come across a word I don't know and I'm like "oh shit, I'm reading German". It's honestly been my favorite part of lemmy, I struggled with Spanish in a classroom setting and here I am learning German on accident. Granted, I couldn't pretend to know how to pronounce half of it, but I'm learning to read it.
You have to be a bit careful, because some people deliberately talk in wrong German ("Zangendeutsch", where words are translated from English by "force").
That makes sense, like learning English from Internet memes?
Worse.
The German you read from Zangendeutsch memes are almost as grammatically accurate as the German accent you got from Schwarzenegger.
Imagine the most broken grammar and then you get that.
On top the grammar is also non-applicable.
Upside: You can still get some idea of what the meme is about. :)
The good news is German has consistent pronunciation so it's easy to learn that part
Until the loan words come out.
Because it's the most newsworthy country at the moment. The most powerful country in the world is crashing before your eyes, whilst the rest of the world mostly continues on as it was. Yeah, some noteworthy things are happening all over the world, but that's not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world. And everything from genocide to climate change, disease and general suffering can be at least tangentially related to the disaster that is the US and it's administration. I mean, what noteworthy things are there to chide Sweden for? Anything? Is it comparible to the horrors and despair that the US is causing? There's your answer.
... but that's not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world
Easy there, lets not forget Israel. America is maybe right behind them though.
I checked the news in the biggest newspaper in sweden, and there's this story about a bus that scraped the roof while driving under a bridge. Must have been scary for the passengers. Luckily it wasn't going that fast. And there's a list of schools where you actually get paid to study so you don't need student loans.
That's awesome that that's the worst news from there. And I love Sweden and Norway as that's where my family originated from. What I wouldn't give to have been born in either of those countries. Unfortunately I'm one generation out of being able to easily go back.
The US is the largest English-speaking country by far and this post is in English. Switch to another language and you'll see less US stuff.
That has nothing to do with anything. You will obviously not be aware of it, but by far the greater majority of English speakers you encounter on the internet are not actually from an English speaking country, and definitely not from the US. That is because English functions as the lingua franca of the internet, so we have to use English to be mutually understood.
Is it? Or is it a question of which communities you're looking at? Because mine isn't.
Typical dismissive answer that I see on here. You know very well US political BS has infiltrated most communities by now.
Not in my experience. If you don't want to see politics there is a robust blocking system on Connect (and other apps I'm sure) that you can use.
Alright lemme just block every community brb
Keywords, friend. Keywords.
Ok then let me block the whole English dictionary then
This would be less of a problem if Lemmy moderators actually gave a fuck anout the quality of their communities.
Yes, you can set that up. But most news communities such as /world, /worldnews, /news, and others are very US-centric. I wonder why that has to be the case when it should be clear to everyone by now that the White House is employing troll tactics.
There are 27 countries in the EU, there is only one USA. Most people don't seem to care about each other's national happenings.
That's so fascinating.
As an American, only peak news from Mexico and Canada gets on my radar. I don't know shit about Brazil, Cuba, etc. and with my shit American education system, I can't even name the South American countries.
So if you're in Italy, you don't give a shit about Austria, Switzerland, or France and their big news?