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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

While I aspire to escape the Anglosphere, I have unwittingly made it my home throughout my life. It’s a slow gradual process to undo that. So I don’t have much to post about, although it’s close to my heart.

I wouldn’t like to see any one nation or culture, even my own, have that large a footprint on the planet. Social media is making it worse.

At the moment, I think the only authentic way for me is to learn the native language of this country and disengage from globalised economics and politics to a degree ( without shirking our responsibilities to our fellow humans).

Actually… That’s just given me an idea for a post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

100% agree.

Usan culture is not totally without merit, but some sort of correction is needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think the only authentic way for me is to learn the native language of this country

Ba ceart dúinn níos mó ailt, físeain, srl. a cuireadh anseo aisti