[ SECRET POST #6175 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6175 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if you are an American. Maybe.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you greatly underestimate the number of grandparents who are actually part of the Internet age.

Or you're young enough for your grandparents to be like 60 or something.

[(Anonymous)]

That was supposed to be overestimate. I hate autocorrect sometimes gd

[(Anonymous)]

Very silly thing to say.

[(Anonymous)]

From what I hear, this is also happening (at least with accents) in England. I imagine accent shifts are a reasonable reflection of other social/technological shifts that are happening.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you suggesting that non-American societies haven’t developed or progressed in the last few centuries?

Because that seems kind of fucked up.

[(Anonymous)]

So often this stuff comes across as paternalistic. They're trying to recognize privilege, but it winds up coming out as, "all cultures except mine are backwards."

[(Anonymous)]

As opposed to? Certainly, Mumbai has changed significantly since the 1820s.

[(Anonymous)]

Mobile phones are a worldwide thing. Vaccines are a worldwide thing. Guns are a worldwide thing. That's some pretty significant changes. Even the changes to average literacy are huge.

[(Anonymous)]

Imagine telling anyone, from anywhere in the world, 150 years ago, that we don't even need to variolate/vaccinate for smallpox any more because we fucking killed it off.

Imagine telling someone from the tropics we have a malaria vaccine now and are working on developing better ones.

Hell, go back a few more centuries and tell people we can cure both leprosy and bubonic plague!

[(Anonymous)]

Now tell them that people are scared to take the vaccines because of the bad magic they think they put in your head. See them nod in familiarity? Yeah, people ain't changed for shit.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

While this is a familiar concept, the amount of people buying into it has fluctuated a lot over the centuries. I think what actually might be more shocking to someone from the past is how (relatively) quickly a person's mind might change on the subject. Well, that and seeing the lengths to which some kids will go to defy the wishes of parents who do not wish to get themselves or their kids vaccinated.