Complaint

[poliphilo]

I've been on a drive to add more friends.

Here's a complaint: Too many American kiddies seem to think it's witty/ironic/Pythonesque to pretend they're blogging from some foreign country. I think, au contraire, that it's silly/disrespectful/patronising. And it makes a nonsense of LJ's grouping of bloggers by region. If I want to find a friend in Bangladesh I don't want to have to wade through half a dozen American high school teenies first. Listen up, guys- overseas isn't intrinsically funny and what you're doing is a dilute form of cultural imperialism.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When I think of Missouri, I think of Jesse James.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

I always think of the sky, for some reason. The really really weird sky.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sounds good.

I love big skies.