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I completely agree. But this is also just a case of who is posting/voting. It’s not a conspiracy to exclude the rest of the world. It’s just happening based on who is populating the community.
US-based news outlets almost exclusively cover the US. US schools focus heavily on US history and current events. Shit, even when a world event happens, we count victims by nationality! “Two Americans (were among the 198) dead today in…” is not an uncommon framing device for “international” stories (are they even international stories if they’re told that way? It’s debatable). We US-based people simply don’t know much better. I know this is a smaller sampling of the nerdier, more intellectual Americans, but we are still affected by our upbringing and access to information. Even world news leans heavily in our direction (in the english-speaking world, at least. As well as the Spanish-speaking world—those are the only two I can give my opinion on, anyway).
Blame capitalism. We output so much media and tasty bits of insanity that focusing on the US is profitable and entertaining.
Point being, I agree, but I’m not ignoring or voting down any actual news from elsewhere. I’ve just don’t really see it. I’d be happy to see it change, but it starts with the people who post the news. I’ll support you in your quest to post more. But until then…I mean, you’re pointing out just a trend, not an effort by everyone to exclude information. Go ahead and post! You have my vote.
The issue is not with a majority of the content being from somewhere. The issue is with the rules of this community:
Oh shit, my mistake. That’s really fuckin’ dumb. You now have that last 2% of my support behind you.