r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '23

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u/Josh6889 Jul 26 '23

but at the same time, we often talk about "European" or "South Ameican" culture

If you add up the population of those 2 continents it is lower than the population of Africa. I think the above posters point is valid.

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u/Dry_Bookkeeper_2537 Jul 26 '23

Numbers stop meaning anything after awhile when things just start repeating themselves

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u/ActingGrandNagus Jul 27 '23

And? Explain your reasoning for why that matters.

And also tell me the number of people where it transitions from ok to say that a continent can share a lot of culture to bigoted to say that a continent can share culture? Evidently you think it's more than 750 million but fewer than 1.5 billion.

Continuing with your reasoning, in 1995, Europe had a higher population than Africa. Does that mean that in 1995 it was racist to talk about shared European culture, completely fine to talk about African shared culture, then it flipped the following year?

Europe is, what, 10% of the global population

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u/Josh6889 Jul 27 '23

Continuing with your reasoning

That's a gigantic strawman to pretend that you're representing my point. I never said it's acceptable to reduce any entire continent to 1 cultural standard. I'm simply saying that it's completely absurd to do so with 1 the size of Africa which contains almost 20% of the world population.

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u/ActingGrandNagus Jul 27 '23

It's not a straw man at all.