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Spiral of silence (theory that people censor themselves if they feel their opinion is in the minority) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not really. Our as I use it implies I, personally, am from the US and that I feel I have some responsibility as a participant in US society (at least, in my case, northern California society).

Contrast using it's to refer to the US state or their indicating I'm on the exterior.

Just as your can mean possessed by you personally or possessed by you, collectively our pronouns can be versitile and ambiguous.

I was writing in good faith, but it is always up to you whether you can trust that.

ETA: I don't know the injury rates or the school-to-professional pipeline of association football, which is highly celebrated in throughout the rest of the world. I do know FIFA experiences high levels of corruption and labor exploitation as NFL or AFL, so there are still reasons for society to regard its sports leagues less. Hominids be hominids, I guess.