Thankyou for laying it out like that. Experiences like yours can't be easily captured by little polls!
Personal rage buttons for me are assuming birthplace, nationality, or ethnic background entail everything else
This is something I definitely need to work on.
I get really flaily about "Western Culture" since it both does and doesn't cover my experience when people conflate it with US culture. I think we're more similar in Autralia to the US than Germany is, especially with regards to speaking English, but we're still not the same. And of course (as you'd know better than me) even actual US culture doesn't fit neatly into the single homogeneous "US culture" people talk about.
Do admit to feeling kind of >:) to see all countries being treated that way, since usually it's something like "US, Canada, Australia, UK" and *then* "other country in Europe, etc." (or sometimes just "other country" as one option which... yeah, not so much.)
Australia is elided by enough polls that I understand the feeling, and that equality of lumping together is something that I feel is very important. I was pretty sure I wouldn't get anyone ticking "at sea", "polar regions" or "Africa" (though as it turns out, I did!) but it would still be really off to lump them together.
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Personal rage buttons for me are assuming birthplace, nationality, or ethnic background entail everything else
This is something I definitely need to work on.
I get really flaily about "Western Culture" since it both does and doesn't cover my experience when people conflate it with US culture. I think we're more similar in Autralia to the US than Germany is, especially with regards to speaking English, but we're still not the same. And of course (as you'd know better than me) even actual US culture doesn't fit neatly into the single homogeneous "US culture" people talk about.
Do admit to feeling kind of >:) to see all countries being treated that way, since usually it's something like "US, Canada, Australia, UK" and *then* "other country in Europe, etc." (or sometimes just "other country" as one option which... yeah, not so much.)
Australia is elided by enough polls that I understand the feeling, and that equality of lumping together is something that I feel is very important. I was pretty sure I wouldn't get anyone ticking "at sea", "polar regions" or "Africa" (though as it turns out, I did!) but it would still be really off to lump them together.