The beauty of the Internet is that, for the most part, it *is* available
to anyone. While you can't change the fact that a great deal of the money
power is aiming at U.S. Net users (who happen to make up a sizeable
percentage of the Net populace) -- sort of a "resistance is futile, you
will be assimilated" situation -- you can still make your own efforts to
shape the Web according to your vision. It may not have a heck of an
impact, but it's better than nothing. It's better than complaining, and
certainly better than not resisting. :-)
Why not make up a site for Canadian Thanksgiving next year? From what I
understand, celebration of Thanksgiving in Canada (coincides with the
U.S.'s lame Columbus Day) is fairly widespread. I enjoyed a lovely dinner
with some Canadian friends this year, in fact.
>But as the Web becomes increasingly commercialized -- as profit becomes
>the motivating force, rather than simple communication and exchange of
>ideas -- I see more and more evidence that the big players (portals,
>magazines, e-commmerce sites and so on) define the Web as the
>demographic cohort equalling "US resident, age 25-40, university
>educated, family income $50,000+" This cheeses me off.
>
>The past couple of days were a good example. It seemed that every
>news, portal and magazine site I visited had prominent features about
>Thanksgiving this-that-and-the-other thing... well, here's a late-breaking
>news flash -- of the 200-odd countries on earth, Thanksgiving was
>celebrated in exactly one of them this week, the US. So Thanksgiving-
>related news was utterly irrelevant to anyone else on the Web.
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