• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “American” is hardly an ethnicity (except maybe if you are referring to native Americans of course), so this has nothing to do with racism. Secondly I assume the author of the comment is refering to the simple fact that the terms “liberal” and “conservative” have drastically different connotations in Europe and the US.

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      10 months ago

      They also have drastically different connotations in America depending on whether the user can read a book.

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        10 months ago

        I think it’s a higher bar of actually reading one. Only around 20% of Americans read a book, any book, within the ages 18-29.