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freehorsetoday at 6:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Because getting "common language and culture" is not neutral when we reside in a world that basically this works with american culture being the global culture. Honestly imo this is a kind of perspective that only an american could have, and being ignorant about what it actually entails. You do not need everybody else to adopt a certain language and way of living to get to understand each other and have peace.

Moreover as other examples here given, geopolitical tensions very often appear between neighbours who have a very similar culture, so sharing cultural similarities does not seem to lead to much of peace in the world.


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anilgulechatoday at 7:13 AM

You seem to be projecting "this will impose western culture everywhere" on perhaps an LLM translater being used to ask if they "wanted to play board games at a cafe with me". Perhaps I didn't read all that into "common culture", a specific example was called out.

Cultures are not that weak, or done away with that easily.

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