One of the things which kick-started the original post for me was trying to find out whether there was going to be a demonstration here in Perth (Western Australia) on October 15 - I could find heaps of information about demonstrations occurring in the US, but nothing much about anything happening outside the USA. It got annoying after a while - there was just so much focus on what was happening in the USA, and no information about things which weren't affecting white, middle-class USAlien citizens.
Now, this is an ongoing problem that I'm finding all over the place - whether it be things like trying to explain to USAliens[1] (or as they used to be described on alt.fan.pratchett, Merkins) how the world works outside their particular home town, or trying to explain that X historical event actually affected people in $COUNTRY as well as people in the USA (for example, the Great Depression did actually affect people in Australia, and the UK, and Germany - and the Great Depression was a major factor in the start of World War II). There's even things like trying to explain the historical antecedents of various events (which means I'm coming up against a strong hegemonic belief that the world apparently popped into existence, fully formed and complete, a week ago last Tuesday).
I never did find out whether there was going to be any kind of protest here in WA.
[1] I should define my terms. A USAlien is a citizen of the United States of America who has never been required by their lifestyle to have any understanding of how things work in other countries, or even of the notion that people in other countries might choose to do things differently to the way they're done in TheirTown, USA. USAlien Privilege, in fact (a form of online privilege, in which other nationalities are required to be literate in US culture, but folks from the US can maintain their ignorance of other cultures without penalty).
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Now, this is an ongoing problem that I'm finding all over the place - whether it be things like trying to explain to USAliens[1] (or as they used to be described on alt.fan.pratchett, Merkins) how the world works outside their particular home town, or trying to explain that X historical event actually affected people in $COUNTRY as well as people in the USA (for example, the Great Depression did actually affect people in Australia, and the UK, and Germany - and the Great Depression was a major factor in the start of World War II). There's even things like trying to explain the historical antecedents of various events (which means I'm coming up against a strong hegemonic belief that the world apparently popped into existence, fully formed and complete, a week ago last Tuesday).
I never did find out whether there was going to be any kind of protest here in WA.
[1] I should define my terms. A USAlien is a citizen of the United States of America who has never been required by their lifestyle to have any understanding of how things work in other countries, or even of the notion that people in other countries might choose to do things differently to the way they're done in TheirTown, USA. USAlien Privilege, in fact (a form of online privilege, in which other nationalities are required to be literate in US culture, but folks from the US can maintain their ignorance of other cultures without penalty).