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by floam 773 days ago
They hate us because we’re happy
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Too afraid to be yourself for fear of being fired. I have an “American corporate personality” now too. Ultra PC etc. I don’t even use regular pronouns anymore by default o use they/them. I try hard to avoid saying “guys”.

I’ve worked in Asia and Europe and America has a special culture where you have to be nice and positive all the time or else…because there is basically no worker protection laws against that discriminate firing, you can’t do much about it either.

Or on antidepressants en masse, it's sometimes hard to tell :)
Nobody sane hates you, personally or collectively.

But we can definitely dislike certain aspects of certain cultures, especially since in this case that culture is the most massively exported culture in the history of mankind.

Of course the gp comment is out of place and taste.