That's really interesting, and I'm glad you shared your perspective. I personally grew up Hindu and my parents immigrated to America when I was born. Most of my friends and family are minorities in one way or another, so I never had the experience of thinking my views were "right" by default given that I grew up in a foreign culture. I would learn Hindu culture at home and at my Sunday school and I would learn about Christian and Christian-influenced American culture the rest of the time and that was normal for me.
So it was really jarring to me to enter Bitcoin 4 years ago and suddenly be surrounded by people who only grew up with a singular Christian culture. But it was just a more extreme version of the rest of my experience so I kinda dealt with it. I had to learn about Bitcoin from the people talking about it, after all.
In my personal life, I'm surrounded by immigrants from all over the world, culturally half american and half something else. Many of my friends are in the queer community as well. So basically what prompted my post was a slowly built up feeling that bitcoiners I respect don't necessarily respect me or my communities in the same way.
[ARCHIVED] Jay
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2023-07-09 15:57:32
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