Kachawk on Nostr: Bridging Cultures This is just a little note of the thoughts I’ve had through the ...

Bridging Cultures

This is just a little note of the thoughts I’ve had through the short time I’ve been a bitcoiner.

Being from a different region than most of my peers in the bitcoin space, I find that orange-pilling my fellow countrymen has become a struggle. I suppose it was that I had adopted some mindsets and values of western bitcoiners have lead me to become blind as to the reality of the culture I was born in. Could it be a privilege that I had access to the right tools and experience that allowed me to adopt the ethos of sound money? Could it be that the way I approach the topic isn’t the way that meets someone where they are at? Could it be that the prior experience of the people I talk to had left them dissolusioned on the idea of a better future?

All these questions lead me to think that I need to be more empathetic.

But how much more empathic can you be when you live in a culture where speaking up means disrespecting those older than you? Where you won’t know if the next person genuinely understands or just nods along to appear respectful. Where it’s better to stick to the status quo. A culture where (in my mind) what “it appears to be” is valued more than “what it is”. Yes, my culture has been known to outsiders as “friendly” and “polite”, but that’s all surface level. Less confrontation does not mean that things are easier.

Things are never really addressed until we reach a boiling point. Most of my fellow countrymen are in pain with the rising prices of goods and services. The K shaped economy of my country could not be any worse. Yet the only outcry I hear is against the government, as if that could solve all our problems. “Change those in power” as that would actually change anything. I believe a large portion of my people have been so brainwashed by the system that the only way they believe things would get better is if those seated are “good people”.

Newsflash: printing is a constant.

The pain points are similar to what I observed from the west, but how to get it across is the most difficult hurdle I have as of the moment.

As bitcoiners, we know where things are headed, and we have hedged our bets to what we believe (mathematically) is the best possible outcome for our current global system. Adopting Bitcoin and a self sovereign mindset has allowed me to take agency over my economic future. Its true that we could be wrong about this. But i personally see it as a risk worth looking into at least because what other alternatives are out there?

I hope that I can plant that idea into more people even if it’s just those around me.

Thanks for reading this rant