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Re:Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023) by fluoridation on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:58PM (#41404361)
>(unique to modernity) a specific culture's media successfully and pervasively inserts itself between people and local/inherited traditions.

So, when there's more cultural exchange and less isolation?

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Re:Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023) by swatcoder on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:08PM (#41404448)
I wouldn't call that inevitable, historically precedented, or an exchange. And I don't think the state of cultural interaction in any of those places was meaningfully more isolated before 20th century media arrived. So no.
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