Why are most of the posts on this CANADIAN site about events that are happening in America? This insidious creep of American culture and foreign policy is what is in fact ‘Americanizing’ Canada. If all we read about is from America, no wonder we lose site of the Canadian identity.
An interesting tidbit to highlight my point. The first incandescent light bulb was patented in Canada, and Edison bought the patent. Still, as Canadians, we recite the US propaganda that Edison invented it. We know more about America than we do about ourselves, (and most of what we know about America is false) because we keep highlighting the US instead of highlighting Canadian achievements, even in a community that is labelled ‘Canada’. This would never happen to any site in the US. We need to start promoting CANADA on a site labeled ‘Canada’.
This instance is hosted in Canada but is not limited to those in Canada. If you’d like to host your own instance that differs from the values of this instance, you are more than welcome to.
And exactly how would I stop this American cultural creep into it, except by continuous moderation and filtering out all cases of it? It is in the nature of Americans to spread their culture into all mass media, digital is just an extension of this.
Chasing truth? As an American, I’m baffled and disgusted that terminology like “woke” has infected Canada like a virus.
But again, if you require stricter rules than provided by your instance, you are welcome to start your own
As a Canadian, I am completely resentful that an American would try to tell me what I want my Canadian culture to be. If we want to re-appropriate the term ‘woke’ and give it whatever meaning and inuendo we as Canadians want, that is fine with me. But to have an AMERICN define the term for us? Not so much. There is nothing wrong with the term ‘woke’ that getting rid of white supremacy will not solve. The irony of this s that the rest of the world has to be woken up to this realty before this will happen.
So you just hate Americans. Got it. Good luck on your new instance.
Americans make it so easy to hate them. Part of it is that Americans hate everyone who is NOT an American or American ass-kisser.
Since lemmy.ca is federated, you can see content from everywhere. However you also have a lot of control over your feed, and you can either block communities you don’t like or (my preference) primarily use the ‘subscribed’ feed and only subscribe to the content you want to see.
This guide page might help: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
If you look on !canada@lemmy.ca, we maintain a pinned post with a list of Canadian communities to subscribe to
And every one of them has been insidiously inundated with American culture. Generally, the talk is all about how America is affecting Canada. That s a tacit acknowledgement of this insidious creep.
I agree that this is happening. While we should be aware of what they’re up to when it directly affects us, we could use more Canada specific content
I try to share what I can, feel free to share some as well :) If you have a website that you recommend, I can see if I can share more from there
That s the problem. I was desperately hopping that this web site (insrtance?) would be a solution, but t seems that the Americans are so insidious, they will infiltrate ANY website. The solution s not to start a new instance the solution is to police the existing instances to keep the Americans out. As long as the Americans have access, they will dominate, period.
It’s actually possible to create local only communities, which would restrict access to users on
lemmy.ca. While that doesn’t completely do what you’re looking for since Canadians on other instances won’t be able to see it, it might help somewhat?On the contrary, it just perpetuates the problem. It does not stop the insidious creep, it just pretends it is not there. Like burying one’s head in the sand. The trick is to stop it from happening in the first place. Americans are quite adept at doing it in their own country (blocking out and filtering the influences of the rest of the world on their culture) so why can Canadians not do the same thing?
For example, the largest IBM manufacturing assembly plant in the WORLD for their semiconductors is in Quebec. How many Canadians know that? Part of the insidiousness, Canadians know more about America than we do about ourselves, and this CANADIAN site doesn’t do very much to change that. Most posts on Canadian sites still carry the undertone of American dominance in Canadian affairs and economy.
Believe me I want the same thing, and I’d imagine most people here want the same. The solution is to post more of what you want to see so others can learn from it. There’s no entity here deciding what content people post
I didn’t know about the IBM plant, and if you want to make a post about it in !canada@lemmy.ca or some other community, I think it would be cool for more people to know about it
Did you know that the University of Waterloo, Canada, is the Western world leader in quantum computing? The trick for Canada is to prevent Google and Alphabet from claiming OUR success stories and accomplishments as their own.
The problem is, EVEY community seems to have been inundated with American culture, even the ostensibly Canadian community. It is insidious in the sense that the main topic of discussion is about what is happening in America. That is the cultural creep.
This insidious creep of American culture and foreign policy is what is in fact ‘Americanizing’ Canada.
That has been happening for longer than both of us have been alive. And it has always been a threat to Canada’s culture and self-image.
It’s the reason the CanCon regulations exist in broadcasting.
It’s the reason there are still some foreign ownership regulations in some industries (and why there were more in the past until Mulroney, Harper and other conservative governments removed them).
https://lemmy.ca/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&sort=New
I think you’ll find it’s mostly about Canada.
It is currently mostly about how America is influencing Canada, or what the implcation of Trump’s Presidency will be on Canada. It is still American culture being discussed.
It’s almost as though the culture and politics of our neighbours are having adverse effects on our country.
Never thought I’d seen Canadians directly combating US hegemony
If you don’t want to see international news and politics, specifically those coming out of the largest and most influential economy on the planet that also happens to be our neighbour, you should just log off the internet entirely
China is now the largest and most influential economy on the planet, not the US, but I don’t see China’s cultural influence everywhere.
Ho ho ho, wait until you find out what the continent Canada is on gets called…
You’re AMERICAN too…
Sorry, but the term is ‘AMERICAN’ citizen. But I agree, the United States of America has appropriated the label ‘America’ to exclusively refer to them. That is exactly the insidious creep I am talking about.
