Comment by xanderlewis
1 year ago
That’s because almost all of this is a distinctly American obsession and problem. Unfortunately it’s gleefully been exported worldwide into contexts where it doesn’t immediately — if at all — apply over the last five years or so and now we’re all saddled with this slow-growing infection.
Entire careers are built on the sort of thing that led Google to this place, and they’re not gonna give up easily.
While I mostly agree with you, I just want to point out that the UK, Canada and Australia have this illness as well.
What was an American problem has become an Anglophone problem.
> What was an American problem has become an Anglophone problem.
Memetic virulence.
But maybe it is also puncturaing through the language and cultural membranes, as evidenced by things like this material from a Dutch university: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclu...
The Anglosphere/commonwealth move as one under the heel of the U.S. There's no point speaking of them as independent entities that "happen to agree"
> Anglosphere/commonwealth
India, Nigeria and Guayana move as one?
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Nah, it's not just the US. Ever heard of the BBC? They are from Britain.
I thought BBC was more of an American obsession?
You’ve missed my point. I’m complaining that it started in the US (where it makes comparative, though still very little, sense) and has spread to places it doesn’t belong.
I certainly have my own thoughts about the recent output and hiring choices of the BBC.