Is the internet replacing culture with copies?

The internet gives us an unprecedented amount of access to other cultures, but it can also create the illusion that we understand other cultures more deeply than we actually do. We see the clothes, food, music, slang, aesthetics, dances. But a culture is also built from invisible everyday realities: • common illnesses, everyday habits, routines, unspoken assumptions, phrases that need no explanation locally, things people grow up adapting to automatically. Those things are harder to export globally because they require too much context. So people simplify them. Because these simplifications constantly happen online, people mistake exposure for understanding. #culture #socialcommentary #society #language #internetculture #thefadshow