#sorry im like really passionate about intercultural communication and i feel like ive seen people be morons for months now

[atthebell]

i am very happy about all the posts circulating about being aware of cultural differences and i think it makes a lot of sense considering none of these streamers will speak english and will have very different cultural touchstones but it is kind of funny to me how little people discussed this previously when we already did have incredibly different cultural communication styles and contexts on the server like. the amount of times things have had to be explained or people have gotten pissed off because someone was "too loud"/"too aggressive"/"too indirect" or whatever is kind of ridiculous.

like again im very glad and i hope this means they're continuing to learn and see what does and doesn't work however from the fandom side of things im seeing people rb things and im like okay so when it's east vs. west that's easy for you to understand that there's differences but when it's europe vs. latam it's not. interesting. wonder if rampant orientalism has anything to do with that.

anyway im not trying to be like a self-righteous dick about this and i want people to be kind and think the best of people without leaping to conclusions i just wish people had given more grace in previous situations of conflicting cultural elements and i hope everyone is better going forward

#bell.txt #sorry im like really passionate about intercultural communication and i feel like ive seen people be morons for months now #and i do think orientalism plays a role in how people talk about these kinds of cultural differences #so to me it feels a little :/ that people are like warning each other so ardently rn versus previous language groups #like im not trying to downplay how difficult the lack of a shared language will make things #but i think that's not the only thing at play