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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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I get that 'donghua' is animated motion picture, and 'manhua' is picture books

Wikipedia says 'danmei' is gay-themed novels, but other people seem to say it for any sort of Chinese web novel? Confused.

What's a cultivation genre good web novel to get started?

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Koombiyo (English: Ants, සිංහල: 'කූඹියෝ') is a 2017 Sri Lankan crime political thriller series.

35 year old bachelor Jehan and his partner in crime Priyantha try to exploit the loopholes in the law in order to make a living.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koombiyo

Episodes here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgj01s2fuEFnkxNvGP42cg

Alternate link with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxDKYVlST8NEvlnVN1exAzl4miLJxmDmc

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/18651836

Throughout decades of cinema, horror has changed so much that there's no question it's one of the genres that has been reinvented the most. Audiences have evolved, and with them, the ways they can be scared. Horror has also had to adapt itself to inevitable cultural shifts.

Yes, horror is universal. But some do it better than others. While the Japanese and the Koreans have proven they can master the art of the scare, American filmmakers have cleverly found a way to adopt those resources. However, the British have also found a way into the conversation of terrifying films based on classic tropes. These are the underrated British horror films that'll give you a scare this Halloween season. That is if you dare to watch them...

  • Kill List (2011)
  • The Ritual (2017)
  • The Borderlands (2013)
  • Host (2020)
  • A Dark Song (2016)
  • The Innocents (1961)
  • The Woman in Black (2012)
  • Saint Maud (2019)
  • Ghostwatch (1992)
  • Repulsion (1965)
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The bizarre ‘bit’ on last Saturday’s Late Late Show in which US presenter Conan O’Brien was coaxed into mocking the Irish-language names of people in the audience was an illustration of this self-loathing colonial cringe. Evidently, the Anglocentric mind finds great amusement in different languages having different phonetic systems.

Late Late Show audience members denigrating the Irish language, couching this ridicule as ‘humour’.

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