Asklemmy

"Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person"

Totally buying the touristy theme park version of whatever other culture. No, the people at the resort don't actually think you're great. No, tripping with a self-proclaimed shaman who charges a month's local wage to resolve your mommy issues is not how the locals do mysticism.

"immigration is why our lives are getting worse"

Very clear indicator that someone has barely attempted to understand how the world works

"$1 million isn't a lot of money."

Thinking China is the same as it was 10-30 years ago and that Chinese products can’t have superior quality.

We’ve reached a point where the US doesn’t even know how to manufacture some of the stuff China can.

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Failing to have a coherent understanding of how imperialism works. A lot of westerners seem to think they live in developed countries developed purely by their own industry, while not realizing how financial capital continues to plunder the global south.

Maybe more of a US bubble but American software never considers that people might be multi lingual and public transport is always disregarded.

Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.

Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.

Those are just examples, there are many more examples in software where you can notice some 20 year old US tech bro came up with it who has never been to a different country.

Their attitudes towards elderly parents. I've been told I shouldn't worry about helping them in their old age because they had their chance to work and save for retirement and so it's their responsibility of it's not enough. Except... They didn't. They migrated here with nothing, provided for THEIR parents their whole lives, and did the best they could for me, which left them with next to nothing. Westerners assume everyone boomer aged or so had the same opportunities that their parents had. The nuclear family is also very hands-off about caring for the elderly. That's not how most of the world operates. Plus, it's so sad!

"If your poor its because you didn't try hard enough"

A close friend (bless his heart) asked me if I "really think China is more free than, say, France?" when talking about things like freedom of the press and journalistic integrity. I've seen a lot of that recently, that because we live in a country which had been once considered to be "socialistic" that the stories we are told and things we have been taught wouldn't align as much with what global and local capitalists want us to believe is true. At one point I remember him critizising me for using the term "wage slave" (which I used jokingly but w/e) because "none of us here are actual wage slaves". Because you apparently have to be an Asian child in a Nike sweatshop to actually be opressed by capitalism. My brother, no-one is free until all are free.

"We need to help African kids!"

These often don't know a single African country besides "South Africa"

Someone once tole me only Western hippies believe in alternative medicine