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.
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 [email protected] 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.