Yes. You don’t actually get to explore other cultures, you just get a bastardized, commodified version of it. The commodification of cultures for global dissemination is destroying unique cultures around the globe. It’s a massive humanitarian crisis, but it gets a free pass in the eyes of the western public because they get to eat tasty food and make pithy comments online directed towards people they hate. Xenophilia is a cancer.
I’ve got news for you: Many people from other places don’t particularly like xenophiliacs treating them like zoo animals.
Many of those who do play along with it are trying to get something out of you. Shitty people exist everywhere.
I think honesty is the best policy even when it sucks for me, because that’s the only way to actually grow and improve myself. The real world is infinite, but lies don’t lead to anything.
When companies treat you as a criminal even when you do try to do everything their way, it really becomes hard to care.
The way many companies act, you’d think they believe that you have to be a sucker to buy/use their own products.
Toootally not a cult.
Anyways, lets share tips on getting rid of our families!
Believe it or not, some people actually like having more than a single mono-culture in the world. Everybody everywhere doesn’t actually want Lego and the Marvel Universe to dominate their own societies.