A strat I’ve seen a lot of people use in that situation is to just pretend they’re Canadian, but I couldn’t do that, frankly. I guess I just don’t like making that part of myself invisible.
I can pass fortunately. I know enough Canadians and can emulate the accent. I have traveled up there a lot as well.
and in turn Americans in Norway are turned into “fetishes” of the current vassal relationship, if that makes sense.
That explains so much.
Young men are turning increasingly rightward, so there’s a lot more Norwegian Redcaps than there used to be, and they are painful.
I worry about that, I saw it happen in the US. The brainrot with US algorithms and social media is out of control.
I can pass fortunately. I know enough Canadians and can emulate the accent.
Honestly, I wouldn’t expect most Norwegians to be so fine-tuned to the differences between American and Canadian accents, nor so acutely aware of the popular culture and current issues of Canada, for that much effort to need to be put into passing as Canadian.
The brainrot with US algorithms and social media is out of control.
This is why I’ve been trying to push people to join the fediverse, especially locally-owned servers. The way things stand, if Norway is so reliant on Seppo tech with Seppo algorithms, all the culture war brainrot nonsense ends up much more easily imported.
— Apropos “brainrot,” I translated an article the other day about how “hip youngsters” watch A Minecraft Movie in English for the memes, while families taking their kids watch the Norwegian dub. This country has totally fucked language politics.
I can pass fortunately. I know enough Canadians and can emulate the accent. I have traveled up there a lot as well.
That explains so much.
I worry about that, I saw it happen in the US. The brainrot with US algorithms and social media is out of control.
Honestly, I wouldn’t expect most Norwegians to be so fine-tuned to the differences between American and Canadian accents, nor so acutely aware of the popular culture and current issues of Canada, for that much effort to need to be put into passing as Canadian.
This is why I’ve been trying to push people to join the fediverse, especially locally-owned servers. The way things stand, if Norway is so reliant on Seppo tech with Seppo algorithms, all the culture war brainrot nonsense ends up much more easily imported.
— Apropos “brainrot,” I translated an article the other day about how “hip youngsters” watch A Minecraft Movie in English for the memes, while families taking their kids watch the Norwegian dub. This country has totally fucked language politics.