Yay... I hope they don't notice this small Austrian village: https://goo.gl/maps/x4i9N78MZY6KErca6
Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?
Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?
It's not English speakers, it's Americans specifically. Their corporations and their media have infiltrated the rest of the free world and are basically telling everyone what is and what isn't ok. People grow up watching American films and shows, accepting American morality and norms as "standard" even though frequently they absolutely aren't elsewhere. People use American social media from young age, letting American corporations censor and control the content they are seeing, again, even if the content shouldn't be controversial where they live.
Yes, I understand the hypocrisy of posting this on an American website. But I believe there is a large portion of non-American users here and it's important to remember that this is happening and should be fought against wherever possible.
The worst is when people intentionally misinterpret what you say to start an argument, kills me inside when someone pulls that trick. I remember a year or so ago I was seeing a VERY leftist girl that kept doing that. Ended up walking out on it all.
As long as the rest of the world willingly lets them, yes.
> This is not the first time Bitche has been caught up in a censorship crossfire. In 1881, U.S. Ambassador to France Levi Parsons Morton took issue with the location of the American embassy on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honor of the town's wartime effort. Morton, embarrassed by the embassy's letterhead, asked Parisian authorities to rename the square — they obliged, changing it to Place des États-Unis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria#Name_ch...
Edit: why is this down voted? It IS ridiculous! ...
Especially the native ones being the most ignorant of other languages (and often of their own)?
Cultural/linguistic diversity is important, but people are more worried about the low-hanging (centered on their Anglo culture) fruit.