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It's happening! I get to do a presentation on the westernisation of gender identities in school.

#gender identity #westernisation #school #lgbtq+

running man’s episode 320 really made me think about respecting and preserving our native languages in as original a form as possible. even though we are blessed enough to be enjoying peacetime in this era, our culture and languages are still subject to unnecessary change because of globalisation. i do wish we’d stop associating knowing english with somehow being more superior and be proud in our local and native tongues to continue using and respecting them without feeling the need to add random english words here and there.

#running man #language preservation #the argument saying 'this is how languages develop' does not apply #in this day and age #this isn't the same as latin x english or arabic x persian #or chinese x japanese/korean #idc about explaining lol #people whose native lang is something other than english #will understand #if they're serious enough about their culture and language #globalisation #americanisation #westernisation #native language

bathetic ballads of my brain

some of the major realisations of my life have been made while in motion in a car with some music playing on my earphones. if you ask me what these realisations were i probably wont be able to tell you because they were that major. you don't have to remember everything and every realisation. who cares if it is a major or a minor one. and i dont know what i'm saying anymore. i'm probably not making any sense. i don't understand this obsession with sense. why do things have to make sense? i am not obliged to like anything or support anything for the sole reason that my friends do. i think like a postmodernist, i think about postmodernism but i'm not living like one. i don't live a postmodern life. you flow i flow with you with me to this music that goes on incessantly in the background of our lives. see i'm not talking about the music playing in cars or the music playing on your speakers in your room. i am talking about this music you and i are unable to hear. disabled to hear. my cynicism my nihilism my existentialism probably scares my parents. but this hopelessness is giving me so much more hope. this is a rant. this is the moment of crisis, eliot. eliot, my friend, you seem to have reached that part of my heart i didn't even know existed. and i'm telling you this is the moment of crisis. and i dare not disturb the universe. i dare not try to roll it into a ball and ask the overwhelming question that would put humanity to shame because i believe camus was right when he said we are searching for answers in an answerless universe. we are all the lovers presley wrote are you lonesome tonight about. we'd be glad to hear the lies. no one wants the truth. we know the truth is our doom. the news of it. is the thirst of knowledge our doom. the christian god didn't want the first humans he created to consume the fruit of the tree of knowledge. blake was obsessed with innocence. milton was obsessed with religion. has not knowledge corrupted us, our once innocent minds untainted by the experiences of life. i don't understand what sense it makes. again i dont understand this obsession with sense. nonsense. nonsense is making sense. is this? you me are parts i hope we meet sometime somewhere. to answer healy's question of how to find oneself if one is lost, there is no need to find yourself. you are a being that must... but there must not be a must. but not having any must is also having a must that we are trying to escape from but are unable to because not having any must would render us barbaric. guess we are trapped then. you and i are trapped. do you get it. we are trapped in each other with each other. the indian light casts multiple shadows but unlike healy's friend/lover, you are not within me but beside me in multiple faces and multiple bodies and i am beside you in multiple faces and multiple bodies. this westernisation is incomprehensible. i cant seem to isolate my existence from it and living in it would suffocate me. it is revolting really. we are fighting a war. and we are in no obligation to call it a fight. do you get it. my parents get annoyed when i voice this question after every sentence. what they don't get is the insecurity and anxiety of being misunderstood and misheard. but i dont have to fret about it. i think i should understand there is no need to fret about things out of our control. but that's again going against another vital human nature. honesty is hurtful.

WorldPride, a largely American celebration, is happening in Washington, D.C., from May 17 to June 8. In recent years, every June, rainbow flags rise, parades take over city streets, and institutions across the world declare their support for LGBTQIA+ rights. But beneath the celebration lies a deeper question: Whose pride are we really celebrating?

June Pride Month is often presented as a global movement. But the truth is, it is rooted in the history, climate, and calendar of the West, particularly North America and Europe. In the Global South, we are encouraged — and often funded — to adopt and mimic this Western timeline, while our own indigenous histories, festivals, climates, and traditions are overlooked, underfunded, or erased.

#pride #worldpride #westernisation #colonialism

Rich Brian Westernised? Rap to Pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBG-tyMWNeo&ab_channel=88rising

His genre has seem to changed significantely, as one of my case studies this is interesting, from rap/ hip-hop to pop, appealing to a more aminstream audience. In hindsight this is great for asian representation, but it almost seems like traditional values have been lost. Even though I personally still do enjoy his music it has strayed from his original ideals.

#rich brian #westernisation #pop

A journalist explains how the biggest migration in human history is helping to fuel the erosion of American cultural dominance.

As Fatima Bhutto observed in her interview with Adeel Hassan of the New York Times:

“Bollywood’s films of the 1950s followed the path of India’s newly independent future, encapsulating ideas of romantic nationalism, social justice and liberty. But now the Bollywood hero lives in London, not in the village, and has no interest in social justice. He wears designer clothes and drives a Ferrari, though he still abides by traditional morality and is unquestioning of the nation. Bollywood’s values today are attached to darker political projects reflecting the mood of the government.”

#far east #south and southeast asia and pacific areas #bollywood #westernisation

Japanese Christmas

Christmas doesn’t hold the kind of weight that it does in Western, Christianity-based cultures, and so the event is taken as less of a religious holiday and more of a consumerist one. Due to it’s disconnect from traditional Western ideas, the Japanese do some very strange things on Christmas day.

Japan holds more commercial views on Christmas, focusing on lights, trees and dressing up like Father Christmas for whatever reason.

Christmas Eve is also more of a romantic holiday similar to Valentines day, where it’s impossible to get reservations anywhere.

Another more perculiar fact about Japanese Christmas is the massive promotion of KFC as a “Christmas food”, again, tying into the consumerist side of things. It is so popular that Christmases in Japan account for 5% of annual revenue for KFC. They also like eating Strawberry Shortcake for some reason.

I suppose dressing up in full Santa attire is considered festive garmenting.

#culture #westernisation

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