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sparkle@lemm.ee 6 months agoConsidering you’re both American and a native English speaker, I somehow doubt that you have gone through primary or secondary schooling in East Asia, let alone anywhere outside of North America… regardless of that, it is very justified to make such generalizations considering how a majority of education is organized – most have very similar structures and are scaled-grading based with the objective to get a “passing grade” and those who get the highest grades get the most opportunities immediately post-education (generally college or better entry into jobs).
Additionally, regardless of what country you go, it is a fact that the government and culture is extremely ableist, and likely has some form of rampant classism (although this is less universal than ableism). Systematic and cultural biases like that undeniably seep into the education system in every country. Your assumptions that education systems being ableist are probably not the default or widespread phenomenon really hinge on “being well-informed on the complexities of childhood/education psychology” and “proper disability awareness and accomodation” being one of the default states. It’s not, and in reality it takes significant amounts of resources and scientific approaches being pooled into specifically accomodating for neurodivergent and/or disabled and underprivileged children.
MudMan@fedia.io 6 months ago
I am neither American nor a native English speaker, but thanks, I'm gonna take that as a compliment. The rest of my point stands.
sparkle@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t think non-Americans would primarily be talking about specific American cities, things they experienced in America, primarily American cultural icons, and American politics while also calling American democrats “leftists” but I suppose anything’s possible isn’t it. But that’s just from a few seconds of scrolling.
MudMan@fedia.io 6 months ago
Hey, you may be shocked by this idea, but sometimes people live in places where they weren't born for a while.
But also, even if they didn't, it turns out you can't exist in the world, let alone the Internet, without being constantly exposed to an absolute firehose of US-generated media, including all those very specific references. And, by extension, we also have to be concerned about you weirdos not messing up without having any agency on the outcomes of your bizarre political system (so don't mess it up for us this November, thanks in advance).
That's the entire impetus of my intervention in this thread, the ongoing frustration of seeing Americans, both on the left and the right, be constantly convinced that everything everywhere works just like it does around them and that nobody has thought about it or come up with different solutions or had different needs elsewhere.
sparkle@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That… would make you American. I’m confused on how you think you can live and work in America for a long period of time while participating in the culture and not be American…
Regardless, you definitely could have gone through a different country’s education system, so how about I ask this: Which continent was it on? Out of, say, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.