• Thurstylark@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It’s like a little sibling. I’ll shit talk my own culture all day, but you make fun of it, then fuck you from here to next Wednesday.

  • Head@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m an American living abroad for a decade and a half and when I hear my own accent at tourist spots I cringe hard. I guess this is an example of cultural cringe?

  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    As a person raised deep in the Mormon culture in our lovely Deseret, I get it. Being bisexual and independently minded made it impossible to stay in the culture, but damnit, it is still part of who I am.

    So many complex emotions that you need to use German to try to describe them.

  • sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I wish there was a word for the utter fascination and adoration of the absurdity and eccentricities of your own culture. I would use it a lot.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I get that. Historically, white men have done a lot of things to be ashamed of.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        What is it about though? Can I cringe when I see the old RCMP uniform?

        • Deceptichum@quokk.auOP
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          2 months ago

          Well the article explains it.

          An example of what it is, would be calling say a NK musician the North Korean Taylor Swift.

          Instead of them standing up on their own accomplishments, we compare them to foreign cultures and devalue our own.