According to the latest annual report from the Linux Foundation (LF), less than 3% of its budgetary resources are allocated to the thing it is named after!

  • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    America is the colloquial name for United States Of America. The denizens of that country are called Americans officially.

    There is no continent of America. There’s North America and South America but that’s not “America”

    Also as a Canadian most people are still genocide supporters. Also also, America the country is larger population wise than the rest of the countries on North America combined. So even with your broad brush of “all Americans are genocide supporters” you’re still wrong.

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      2 hours ago

      i was thinking how i have to code switch the name “american” based on the audience and it made me wonder if this was one of the defining characteristics of all westerners.

      the anglosphere is probably the primary driver of the definition of “america” as you described it in your comment and your culture’s sociopolitical alignment depends on how much in common your idea of “america” matches the anglosphere’s definition of “america”.

      in other words, the less your definition of “america” has we the anglosphere’s definition of “america”; the more eastern you are.

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        2 hours ago

        That’s an interesting way to look at it. I’ve also easterners call it America but normally those are people from Japan or Korea which already have pretty heavy American influence.

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          the definition of “easterner” also seems to have a hegemony of its own. a majority of latin americans likewise have an undeniably strong american influence; but they share this eastern definition of the word “american”.

          however a majority of the world who share the non-anglocentric definition of the word “american” are literally in the east; so it defaults to an eastern-centric definition despite a sizeable minority share of its subscribers in latin-america being more closely aligned w the west.