The War on the Walkman

Re:The War on the Walkman by Nifty3929 on Sunday July 06, 2025 @01:18PM (#44482440)

There's a lot more immigration and diversity today, especially in urban and sub-urban America. While laudatory in many respects, I think it also reduces social interaction because there's less shared cultural background, beliefs, or even language that might otherwise have lubricated these interactions.

I'm just being descriptive here, not normative.

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Re:The War on the Walkman by Larrikin on Monday July 07, 2025 @11:15AM (#44491253)

Only if you think of the other person as lesser than you or you are fearful of the interaction.

Traveling abroad and being a tourist, usually invites tons of conversation and sharing of culture from both sides, especially if the person visiting has put in effort to learn the language.

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Re:The War on the Walkman by wkat4242 on Monday July 07, 2025 @11:37AM (#44491468)

But why do you desire to communicate with literally everyone in a big city? I don't care about that.

The reason I live in a big city is that it has enough of a base to make even small fringey communities viable. Such as the makerspace I'm part of, and some more NSFW activities too. I'm sure 95% of people don't care about those things but for me they are very defining.

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