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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not directly relevant but whenever I consume Indian media, I’m struck by how utterly foreign it feels. I watch a Chinese show? I see where it comes from. Mexican? Through line found. French? I understand the satire. Indian social norms and cultural development seem either so idiosyncratic or novel that they sincerely take me out. They, as a people and a nation, befuddle me in such a unique way. This isn’t a critique, just someone looking from the outside with curiosity and confusion.

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11181514@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Chinese media: everything is perfect in an uncanny valley sort of way

Mexican media: drugs, Jesus, boobs, or cartels

French media: like a student film with a budget

Indian media: this guy just punched a car so hard it turned into a transformer, then he turned into a transformer, then they fought and now everyone’s dancing

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- DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sauce? I’d like to know more about these transformers. Thanks!
  
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  - Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Enthiran
    
    But I can highly recommend RRR instead
    
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    11181514@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I swear to god I was just making shit up. I actually described a real movie?! That’s hilarious!
    
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  - Pirky@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Bollywood
    
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- admin@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Mexican media: drugs, Jesus, boobs, or cartels
  
  Also cooking shows and kitchen stuff.
  
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Lath@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You're seeing India as a whole, but you gotta split it into pieces. It's a melting pot of ethnicities that exist disharmoniously. Unlike China where the Han Chinese pretty much wiped out most of their extended family over the course of centuries by way of brutal warfare and discrimination, India managed to retain some familial morality where everyone lives together while hating each other.
It's a similar, yet different path of evolution.

China - There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
India - Bloody bitch bastard bloody
USA - Murika, fuck yeah!

And yes, I am talking out of my ass.

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- AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  USA - Murika, fuck yeah!
  
  We do also have sensationalist films like “Supersize Me”
  
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morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is precisely why Ms. Marvel felt so weird to me. I felt like certain parts kept those novel ideas, and other parts were adjusted for an American audience, and the two didn’t mesh at all.

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