But you know that already… don’t you?

This is another one of those posts where I write about something that upsets me and have to clarify that I’m not blaming anyone, but I am asking for people to think about what I’m saying.

Things that happen outside the US matter. 

I honestly think that sometimes USians underestimate the breadth of their impact overseas. Did you know that Australia is the same size as the continental US? Did you know we also have less than a tenth of your population? We’re an affluent country but we’re still peanuts next to you. Your politics influence world politics. Your companies influence everything, and they export themselves, and they buy local companies out. Your media industry is so affluent that… I don’t think there’s even one current Australian film on at the cinemas right now. We don’t have the infrastructure to support a big industry, and why invest eitherway? The US’ll do it better and in higher quantities, and they’ll promote the hell out of what they have. 

When I lived in the US no one seemed to get that it was obvious why I understood their accents when they couldn’t understand mine, and english is my first language. I’m a white person from Australia. I’m not framing this as persecution, I’m just making a point that your media pervades everything. Your stories pervade everything. Foreign media regularly gets remade for a US audience, rather than exported.  

Media homogeneity is not a good thing. 

Basically, if someone who isn’t a USian wants some information to get across, we rely on USians to signal boost. Otherwise it’s like herd immunity, but for information. 

The internet is where we get information that won’t get on the news or in the papers. It’s important. I hear about US politics all the time, I get your posts about voting in the primaries, and I reblog them because I think it’s a good thing to do, even though it doesn’t impact me directly. A lot of tumblr culture is based around that idea, but still, the vast majority of what I see on this website is only about US events. 

I hadn’t actually even thought about for a while, until this past week, when I wrote every day about an Australian event and an Australian artist, and it got next to no attention. What I was writing about wasn’t considered universal. What happens in the US is. 

I know that even though tumblr is global, it’s still run by and predominantly used by USians, but non-Usians can’t just opt out of using US social media products, because any industry that could support alternatives gets outcompeted by the US. There is no local equivalent. There couldn’t be. US-centrism influences the global landscape. In everything. Everything. 

Please, please recognize the impact that has. 

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