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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

USA you mean. (America covers Canada and Mexico and Brazil and... Well you get the picture).

As with anything in the US it's more complex than that. Most of my friends speak a second language to some degree. German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and I myself am working on Welsh.

Sure you get plenty of ignorant folk who call it useless, like most of my relatives, but plenty want to learn. US is not really one homogenous culture despite how it might seem at times.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

US is not really one homogenous culture despite how it might seem at times.

You can thank first-past-the-post for the false majorities creating that perception.

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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

That and Hollywood and pop culture (which would be what I expect other countries interact with the most) likes to homogenize and play to the most common elements.

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[–] dlhextall@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Not like anglo-canadians bother themselves with learning the official second language of the country.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 point 2 months ago

IIRC it's like that in most european countries with more than one official language, too. Ironically it's usually the native French speakers who don't want to learn a different language.

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