Post #1495935

2026-04-16 05:02 UTC

@isagalaev ok, yes people do forget. To me it seems wild that people are able to forget that the seasons are different down here. However, my lived experience is different as I have been aware of the difference from a very young age. E.g. warm Christmas vs. cold Christmas.

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@rubenerd@bsd.network 2026-04-16 05:07

@wezm @isagalaev It used to really get to me when I lived in Singapore, which doesn't have traditional seasons at all. A lot of those ostensibly in the "Northern Hemisphere" are similar.

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@isagalaev@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 05:09

@wezm but it's not wild for the northerners, as we run into such misunderstandings only very rarely, because most of the world is heavily biased to this default. Let me rephrase it this way: apparently the 87/13 bias is enough to form a clear cultural default. Another one of those: American tourists simply assume everyone speak Eglish. And most of the time, people actually do! I don't believe Americans are uniquely dumb or arrogant, it just follows from their actual experience.

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