orsopolare

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[–] orsopolare@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Totally agreed, but that doesn't only apply to arabs, as I personally notice a lot of italians (for example) doing it (mixing english with italian), and for both the motives are different whether it is globalization, colonization or the famous sense of western and/or white supermacy.

Personally i only do code switching with other multi-linguals, but other than that it would only seem pretentious and not very polite.

[–] orsopolare@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't talking about saying things publicly, i was pointing towards the fact that even private conversations would be surveilled, hence, any joke or discussion made would be question to suspicion without intended targeting.

[–] orsopolare@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

I speak english, italian and arabic. and it's so much fun to switch between the three with other multi-linguals, personally sometimes i find it hard to switch to english after speaking italian for a long period of time, and when i read english text i tend to pronounce the numbers in italian as it feels much easier and makes more sense for me.

I think it's overall a fun experience.

[–] orsopolare@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Giving your point, what concerns me even more is the complete decline of cultural diversity, people are just the same, whether they live east/west/south/north of the globe, digital globalization is killing diversity and leaves no room for cultural exchange, we often forget that we are the story, and if we are not able to tell our story, someone will come and tell it, using their own version of it, which might not even align to the original one, and if we try claim the story, it's already too late, we have seen it happening and it will continue to happen all over the world.

and this is absolutely applicable to privacy, the next generations will grow up in a society where surveillance is the normality and privacy is something of the past.

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submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by orsopolare@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Sometimes I think, I have learned a lot about this issue and I'm well aware of the fact the whole world is going towards a state of surveillance that no one can escape, I have done everything I could to ensure my personal privacy, but what about others?

the majority of the world population does not even care about this matter, and they might even see it as a normality, the people might even know that they are being watched/listened to/surveilled, and they don't do anything to prevent it neither individually or collectively.

I also believe that protecting the individual privacy automatically contributes to the collective privacy and vice-versa, but seeing how the world is heading towards extreme surveillance that is practically impossible to resist (eg.. face recognition, chat control law), I ask, what is the point of all of this? how can i live peacfully knowing that i can be suspected of anything just because i made a joke here or said something there?

and I'm not talking 100% privacy or anonymity, i'm just talking peace of mind and well-being.