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If you haven't noticed, culture radiates from the US, and all our traditions were made up recently
This wasn't even a thing made to be shared. This is a stupid little toy website made for children
If you value your culture, make art about it.
Don't blame our art for not including your culture, are you asking to have your culture assimilated???
Because that's where that road leads. If American culture gains a deep understanding of German culture, that just means the empty corpo-slop will overtake the things you find special
I don't blame you for not including my culture. I blame the translation that I feel confident in assuming is meant to be aimed at me for not including my culture.
And I'm saying you don't actually want that. I'm pretty confident you want to keep your culture
The way you lose it is by slop worming it's way in. The slop is inoffensive and tasteless
Just laugh at the bad localization, don't try to fix it. It's a bullet that missed you by a mile
Yes I want to keep my culture, that's exactly my point. I don't want bad translations pushing the US version. Bad enough that basically all the Christmas entertainment media we get is US centric. It would be so easy to include a sentence about local traditions in this translation but nobody put the effort in and I am left to wonder why the translation even exists in the first place.
You don't understand... If the slop is inoffensive, it'll pour in everywhere. Your culture will drown in it, one day you will wake up and realize ads have decided how you should properly interact with your family
It's good that you don't like it. That means you have something to protect, you still have something you value
Do you understand how much Americans hunger for culture? It's not because we don't have it, we have hundreds of cultures. It's because it has all been mixed together into inoffensive slurry that leaves us feeling empty
The important and unimportant are all mixed up and drained away, and it's not the important things that remain. It's the things that profit someone