Comment by freehorse
2 hours ago
Because getting "common language and culture" is not neutral when we reside in a world that basically this works with american culture being the global culture. Honestly imo this is a kind of perspective that only an american could have, and being ignorant about what it actually entails. You do not need everybody else to adopt a certain language and way of living to get to understand each other and have peace.
Moreover as other examples here given, geopolitical tensions very often appear between neighbours who have a very similar culture, so sharing cultural similarities does not seem to lead to much of peace in the world.
You seem to be projecting "this will impose western culture everywhere" on perhaps an LLM translater being used to ask if they "wanted to play board games at a cafe with me". Perhaps I didn't read all that into "common culture", a specific example was called out.
Cultures are not that weak, or done away with that easily.
Nobody is arguing that translator apps existing is a bad thing, that was not what was told. Obviously being able to communicate with each other is a good thing.
Not sure about nepal, but in some cultures/places (can just be different place within the same broadly culture) they associate eg card playing with gambling. I do not gamble but I play games with cards occasionally, and if I say "let's play a card game in a cafe" without meaning it for gambling it may still be interpreted as suggesting to go gamble by some, even though there is no literal translation issue per se (but there is misinterpretation). I dunno but maybe something similar is what happened.