#anglosphere

[philgbtqochs]

We know tumblr is dominated by the anglosphere, but how is it distributed between its core countries?

"The five core countries of the Anglosphere are usually taken to be Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries enjoy close cultural and diplomatic links with one another and are aligned under military and security programmes." (Wikipedia)

Reblog for bigger sample-size. I'm really curious about this!

#polls #anglosphere #demographics #united kingdom #united states #canada #australia #new zealand

[vox-anglosphere]

A tender good-night to my British friends & followers. Here's to a Happy New Year of peace & prosperity throughout the Anglosphere.

#Happy New Year #1 January 2024 #night map of Britain #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #satellite photo #Anglosphere

[safije]

White privilege is when a person of color gets made fun of for speaking broken English while a white guy gets praised for speaking a few basic sentences in any non-European language.

#All those channels where its like “WHITE GUY SPEAKS PERFECT CHINESE SHOCKS LADY” #Xiaomanyc #Congratulations u get to learn a new language as a hobby and a form of content creation #We have to learn english because we're forced to #anglosphere #Youtube #Europe #Asia #African #Colonialism

[culmaer]

I don't mean to be rude, but why is Canada considered a part of America on your poll? It's obviously not by continent so I'm just curious if you're looking for non-Americans why you'd group any countries together with the US.

because tumblr polls only have 12 options.

I originally had Canada separate from the US (and Ireland separate from the UK) but then ran out of space. and while the countries are not grouped by continent, they are grouped by region. Canada and the US are both North American and make the most sense to group together. simple as that.

for a more detailed answer, keep reading below

I also wouldn't want to redo the other groupings. for example, the prevalence of the Malaysia-Philippine bloc has been a real surprise ! that's actually an interesting data point. but if I'd simply done an Asia Group to free up another space, their user spike would likely and reasonably have been attributed to India-Pakistan-Bangladesh, some of the most populous countries in the Anglosphere.

or for example, comparing the populations of Tanzania and Kenya to South Africa, East Africa's representation on tumblr seems surprisingly low (probably because they have Swahili as an inter-ethnic group lingua franca, besides English). it's also nice to have some data on the Caribbean and Pacific islands

so yeah. I'd've liked Canada separate, but I'm glad to have rather prioritised the other regions.

oké. so now a little confession :

as interested as I genuinely am in data from outside the "West", US Americans are the majority of tumblr's userbase, and so for the poll's data to be accurate, it should reflect that. filtering out American responses wasn't really a goal

the main reason I added that line is because.. I feel like we've become a bit desensitised to "please reblog for a large sample size." and so I thought maybe by stoking some friendly (and I do beleive it's friendly) rivalry between Americans and everyone else, it could encourage more engagement with the poll

#I am surprised by Canadians responses in the tags I genuinely wasn't expecting it #especially since the Irish haven't said anything about being grouped in with the UK #poll #anglosphere #english

[countesspetofi]

Today's hot take:

All of us former British colonies who aren't in the Commonwealth should form our own association.

Not for political or economic purposes, but just so that the Commonwealth and whatever we call our group can get together and have friendly competitions. Volleyball, tug-o-war, pie-eating contests... I guess spelling bees are out, since we can't agree on things like "color" and "tyre." But we could have pub trivia and the old egg-and-spoon race!

#british empire #british commonwealth #post-colonialism #anglosphere #the special relationship #let's have some fun #field day

[gameofthrones2020]

Why People Can’t Trust the Media

Why People Can’t Trust the Media and why its partly due to people not doing research and partly due to new technology

Within the past 20 years, our societies around the globe, particularly in Global North and developed nations, have become incredibly uniform, killing off a diversity of thought and culture and, in some ways, variety in how we live our lives. Just take a walk in your local public centres, places of gathering, particularly in cities, and you will witness how uninformed people have…

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#Alexander Baine #Anglosphere #Donald Trump #Fake News #How New Technologies Impacted the Media #Media #Media Trust #Rory Stewart #Straight Arrow News

[immaculatasknight]

Global busybodies

#Canada #foreign influence #UN #NATO #IMF #World Bank #mining #banks #military spending #intervention #anglosphere #francosphere #colonialism

[k-star-holic]

'The Gloria' Park Sung-hoon, a questionable gag car ... Cool Revenge

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

#Saint Patrick's Day #Lim Ji-yeon #Yeongene #Park Sung-hoon #revenge #Anglosphere #Lee Do-hyun #Ambassador #Netflix #Louie

[solarbird]

I am staggered by how completely so much of the left has blown this moment, both in lining up with the overtly imperialist authoritarian whose self-proclaimed fascists architected this war, and in missing the raw political opportunity offered them on a goddamn. silver. platter. I mean... all they had to do was look at the reactionary authoritarian whose regime extinguished democratic elections, routinely jails or assassinates political opponents, legalised domestic abuse (YES REALLY), REALLY hates the queers, and who launched an explicit war of conquest and genocide against a small neighbour whose territorial integrity they guaranteed in exchange for surrendering their nukes, and NOT go, "oh man, he's definitely our guy!" IT'S NOT A HARD CALL. But they blew it! There are leftists who didn't blow it. I'm QTing one who absolutely didn't! I hope they're the future of the US left, because WE NEED ONE FOR REALS KIDS. But NOT the tankie clowncar making most of the noise. At least they're cleanly sorting themselves apart. Seriously this is a great guide for the future. "Were they FOR or AGAINST the extermination of Ukrainians?" Very simple test! Very straightforward answers! Really, really rare in politics, too. Convenient. And staggeringly appalling. Alexander references '56; I can definitely see that. But to me, this is worse. This is '39-40, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the would-be partition of P/o/l/a/n/d/ Ukraine. Putin has rehabilitated Stalin and wants to restore his empire. You're either for that or you're not. And before you accuse me of trying to turn this into a low-resolution rerun of World War II, I strongly advise you go look at what Putin has been saying, in his own goddamn words. Because that's what he wants it to be, domestically, and is not afraid to say so. Only he's the one quoting Hitler without irony, and it's his architect of policy who went around saying the only thing wrong with Nazi Fascism is that it was Germans doing it, and not Russians. And they picked this guy as their hero. Christ. Just imagine if they hadn't been this fucking stupid. This fucking dumb. Oh my god the opportunity here. Being actually anti-imperialist, loud and in front, actually opposing an actual forthright war of conquest by a country which explicitly wants to restore an empire they lost and exterminate a culture... with EVERYONE EXCEPT OUR HOMEGROWN FASCISTS AGREEING WITH YOU. For the first time in their political lives, everyone except our own fascists actually might want to hear what else they had to say. The opportunities lost. My gods. The opportunities lost. But now, no, they're the tankie magat wanna-bes in bed with Putin and spouting nonsense to support imperial religious wars against queers, women, and self-determination, and for bonus points, you can be damn sure nobody's gonna give up their nukes ever again after this. I've said more times than I can count that the American left is in love with failure. Not all of it, but a lot of it. Success is anathema to so many of them. This also shows up in condemning imperfect successes and flat-out blunt refusal to celebrate ANY wins of ANY kind. This opportunity is SO clear and SO obvious I have a hard time seeing missing it as anything less than a combination of puritanical dogmatism ("the US / west is ALWAYS the worst actor") and out-and-out self-sabotage. These last couple of years have kinda driven it home to me. "In love with failure" started as a quip, turned into a hypothesis, and as far as I'm concerned, it's now a pretty robust theory. They're in love with failure, because successes are always imperfect and incomplete and therefore not successes and celebrating them is selling out. But failure - oh, sweet failure - shows purity was retained. And so, they cannot let it go. And that... that is one hell of a political pathology.

#us politics #american politics #anglosphere #leftism #politics #writings

[ladamedusoif]

Permission to be a nerdy expert and deeply thirsty for two minutes.

I am begging - begging - fashion writers et al to realise that “Victorian” is a specific time period and place, not an entire century. And if you must insist on the Darcy comparison (about which more anon), then recognise that Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, aka the Georgian/Regency period. (Victoria wouldn’t become queen for almost two decades.)

And that being said: I stand by my read of the whole look being far more 1830s European Romantic.

Now that I’ve got my nerdy twitching out of the way: I would like to hear more about the whole “making a shirt that’s nicely oversized and designed to be opened like that” design process please and thank you. 😘

#let me nerd out on this please #Victorian doesn’t mean 19th century and shouldn’t be used to refer to anything outside Britain #just say no to everything being framed in the Anglosphere #other references exist beyond pride and prejudice and the regency and I’m begging people to realise that #thank you for coming to my ted talk #pedro pascal #it’s fashion baby

[canisalbus]

As someone whose entire extended family lives in Sicily irl and they're all super catholic i am delighted by Machete's place of origin??? I literally feel like that meme with the anime girl that's like "(Location) mentioned!!!" anytime it comes up lol

Anyways I love reading OC lore so your blog is always a treat 😎

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#oh thank you! it's so good to hear you like him! #I hope I'm not doing a glaring disservice to Sicilians or Italians as a whole with my weird dog guy #to be honest I'm always worried about people taking him as serious representation of some trait they associate with and feel close to #and then potentially getting disappointed or upset when he's flawed and troubled and not always entirely likable #does that make sense? I'm an overthinking people-pleaser it's probably just all in my head #answered #anonymous #it's so funny that this [location mentioned] is a worldwide phenomenon #especially in non-anglosphere countries #because Finnish people always get hella excited whenever Finland is mentioned anywhere #it's became a well known inside joke (torille) #we're such a small quiet and remote nation it's always a pleasant surprise whenever one of the big guys remembers that we exist

[prussianmemes]

the glassy eyed 1000 yard western euro stare you get when you tell the people sitting in you and your visibly ill girlfriend's seats that they're in your reserved seats and they go "ach... ja but your reservation is not written here there is no r-"

excuse me you germano-frankish beady eyed cocksucker, we're on a čd train and my čd ticket shows us as having these seats, and your rootless ugly white and black deutschebahn fart app doesn't even have seat reservations because despite your national stereotype you have the same organization and respect for order a gypsy does.

don't give me your "mon dieu et iz not written here" - the train is chronically overcrowded because your third world national rail company can't book properly, you've been sitting for 3 hours from shitggart and have only been looking at your insta stories while pretending to study pierre von shittenlips. i have a visibly ill and weak passenger with me but beyond the former iron curtain, despite your supposed cosmopolitan love for all, you're like the rats in the paradise experiment who actually just viciously serve themselves first above all.

and the nerve to snicker and chat amongst yourselves once we get off... after very clearly sitting in our seats...: TOTAL WEST EURO CONTINENTAL DEATH.....

i believe now in celto-slavic racial superiority

#i fully understand edvard beneš now #i know why we killed 3000 of them with trucks in postoloprty #and it's a mindset not an ethnicity #the complete arrogant rootless cosmopolitan faggotry and proclaimed internationalism but being so rude and immediately self serving #i fully believe in a race war against everyone beyond the former iron curtain #ossies are fine because they have the eastern mentality and were protected #but seriously behead all le international cosmopolitan franco-germanic-spaniard expats going on tourism or living as le expats #complete shitbags #btw people always complain about anglos #but the anglosphere is so concerned with behaving polite i've never ever ever had a problem with them #they would have given up the seats #txt

[vox-anglosphere]

Oriel windows project from the upper storey of this Tudor mansion

#Tudor Revival #Oriel windows #half-timbered #leaded panes #classic architecture #wisteria #sandstone #anglosphere #UK

[thecruellestmonth]

Many moons ago when I was a kiddie and I saw Under the Red Hood for the first time, I turned to my mom during the credits and asked her if she'd want me to avenge her if she ever got murdered.

And of course I was fishing for an answer like, "Nooo, I want what's best for you, of course I'd want you to find peace."

But her expression got all dark and she said, "Yes. Avenge me."

#She also said‚ ''I don't care about Batman's white people bullshit!" But I'm not including that bc then the post would sound fake. #And then I was like haha you're kidding right? And her face stayed all dark and she was like No. #My mom is really tiny btw. #This is what I mean when I say that the Anglosphere has no idea what Buddhists are like.

[winxwiki]

Winx Club is the equivalent of the renaissance of magical girls.

After Sailor Moon, in Japan and overseas we got a lot of MG shows from 1996-2003 but none of them left a comparable impact (except for Doremi and Tokyo Mew Mew and only outside the anglosphere). Winx Club was the second coming of Christ worldwide. A phenomenon that Precure did not manage to repeat on the same scale outside Japan (where was it successful in the WHOLE west? Italy again).

Made by italian queer artists under a catholic director. Just like real renaissance art historically. Bloom is Magical Girl Jesus. Isn't it poetic

#but the 4kids dubs of tmm and doremi- did you get merch? did you get the full seasons? #no. shut up. you destroyed their rep in the anglosphere. forever #who got the dolls? who got the wands? who got the easter eggs? NOT YOU #text #miraculous feels like a third coming but it has such a large hatedom. i dont think it will be loved once the target audience grows

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

...wait, people are genuinely upset that greta gerwig didnt get nominated for best director for the toy commercial movie when the movie got nominations for best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best original song, best production design, best costume design, best picture, and best adapted screenplay for which greta gerwig was nominated?

#kai rambles #im sorry #im just like so annoyed at all the #''movie about feminism and patriarchy made by women has oscar nom go to ken'' reactions #as if no women were nominated at all????? #america ferrera was nominated #billie eilish was nominated #margot robbie was nominated as part of the best picture nom #greta gerwig was fucking nominated #like im sorry but this is like the white feminist version of a moral panic #also justine triet was nominated for best director for anatomy of a fall but i guess yall dont care about films in different languages #also lily gladstone got a best actress nomination becoming the first native american to nominated for an oscar #nimona got a best animated feature film nomination #in general we're seeing more non-english language films get nominations which goes a long way in convincing the general public in the #angliaphere to actually engage with media outside of it #*anglosphere #i just #your babys first feminism toy commercial not sweeping every category is a non-issue #and these reactions are so fucking embarrassing #like im sorry but the toy commercial movie happens to also have a lot of issues with white feminism #and a lot lf native americans have spoken out about it being outright hostile to them #its not a perfect film and its not being snubbed by the patriarchy #it just happens to be that there are other films that came out which were better