• wraptile
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    4 years ago

    I honestly hate how america centric internet has become. Seems like every context is considered from american culture even though there are 7 billion more people on the planet.

    The rest of the world doesn’t really care about your internal politics. Don’t change international standards because of some cultural issues in your home.

    Also human trafficking is real world slavery that enslaves more people in a single year than in entire history of american slavery. How about we start from there and get rid of the word traffic?

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      Github is an American company acquired by Microsoft which is an American company. Feel free to name your branches whatever is appropriate to your cultural context

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        Just because it’s incorporated and registered in america make it an american company? That’s not how internet works. If you have international community you should respect it as an international body.
        You’re kinda the problem I mentioned in my OP: “Everything is american! hur dur” ugh 🤮

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          Literally that’s exactly what this means. Company incorporated in country X is a country X company. Why are you so upset that they’ve made this semantic decision which will likely barely affect you?

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            No that’s not what it means. For example if country services France it has to obey French laws, the “incorporated location” is completely irrelevant for anything but taxing. Same way if you serve mutli-cultural user base you shouldn’t be forcing everyone to follow single country’s culture.

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        yet the word “master” has absolutely zero relevance to slavery in Europe. I mean it’s not like Europeans translate “master” to their equivalent of “slave lord” in their git repository. In Lithuanian for example word “master” is a de facto loan word for “someone who mastered something” as in master craftsman and absolutely no one would associate the word with slavery.

        Maybe Americans should start mandatory linguistic classes to catch up with the rest of the world a bit?

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      I honestly hate how america centric internet has become. Seems like every context is considered from american culture even though there are 7 billion more people on the planet.

      nah, you’re just browsing the wrongs parts of the internet if you’ve gotten such impression :)

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        maybe I am; what would you recommend to browse that is more aware of international context?

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            That might not matter. Language is not always a barrier.

            And anyway, there is a kit you can learn from people you don’t understand.