This is me and my best friend at that time. Peak early 2000.

We were lip-syncing (popular back then) Romanian rap songs on the stage, having fun. Bomfunk’s MC, breakdance, spiky hair, loose clothes. Nothing to do with the Romanian culture, of course.

So let’s be real for a bit here, all of those Catalan, or Romanian, or whatever cultural traditions are at best a day in the calendar for most people, since most people absorb their values from a wider world, through a lot of means: from music to platforms, movies to books.

For better or for worse.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#catalonia #romania #spain #culture #breakdance

The Extreme Hypocrisy!

Everyone knows this guy unfortunately (Trump) and how he wants to make America Great “Again”… And how he is deporting so many “illegal” immigrants, and how he makes it difficult for others to come to the USA tribe.

Here is him posing proudly with the US Physics team that won five gold medals at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad:

These are all children of immigrants. As you can tell.
None is a “native” American, whatever that means.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#usa #migrants #immigration #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #murica #trump

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #traditions #religion #tromarticles #tromsite

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

How many people celebrate the holy-days today in the same way that people celebrated them 50-100 years ago?

I know that for us, coming from a very religious tribe called Romania, Christmas was more about the Christmas tree, presents, food and Coca-Cola. Oh and watching Home Alone on repeat. Nothing to do with the original Christmas “holy” day. Or anything Romanian specific either.

And so it was the case for everyone I knew. And that’s one of the many “holy” days that today have become mostly about consuming.

The forces of our trade-based society with its marketing tentacles, are transforming the culture more than any dictators and philosophers do. That you should keep in mind.

#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #holiday #holidays #romania #homealone #christmas #cocacola #money #TradeRuinsEverything

Snippet from Culture Cancer:

I am quite happy that some of our roots in Europe, like those from the Ottoman empire, are long gone because I would not want to wear this fashionable-onion-hat.

And most likely very few in Europe would probably listen to the Ottoman music today, or understand their contemporary poetry and art. Not to mention their buildings and many traditions that are not at all compatible with today’s standards, morally and structurally.

But these are our “roots”, right? Or if we go back our roots in Europe were the Roman empire. Should we go way back? Why do we regard “our culture” as the “happenings” that have happened only for the past hundreds of years? Isn’t that an arbitrary line to draw and call it “our culture”? Especially since we know we cannot freeze that culture in time and hope to take it with us intact into the distant future.

#culture #europe #empire #trom #tromsite

Catalonia and the people speaking the catalan language reside mostly here:

And this is how they ended up here:

What was there before?

Some Muslims it seems with their own language and culture.

To quote Wikipedia: “From the 8th century onwards the Catalan counts extended their territory southwards and westwards at the expense of the Muslims, bringing their language with them.”

The classic way of grabbing land, kicking off the “native” people (who very likely did the same thing to others who where there before them), put fences and borders and called it their land with their own language. The story of every tribe. Spain, France, USA … Every single one.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#catalonia #catala #catalan #culture #trom #tromsite

The french fries probably originated from Spain some 400 years ago.
Fish and chips are a kind of food that was introduced in England by immigrants.
And the Spanish paella emerged from the Muslims who began rice cultivation in what is today called as “Spain”.

Look at the evolution of the popular Chicken Tikka Masala (Wikipedia):

Evolution of chicken tikka masala as a multicultural British dish.[41][4] Chicken tikka was created in Mughal India using Persian marinading of meat in yoghurt and Central Asian tandoor roasting with Indian spices.[42] In 20th century Britain, a sauce was added to meet the British liking for gravy with meat.[12] The dish has evolved further to a taco filling in the US,[36] and to a pizza topping in India.[39] Tacos originated from Mexico.[43] Pizzas originated from Italy.[44]

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #society #food #spain #india

Two more accounts blocked server wide:
ChristiJunior@fsebugoutzone.org
The_Vampire_Brigade@detroitriotcity.com

For this:

I recommend for other instances to block them too.

EDIT: We blocked their entire instances since they are absolute trash. You can check them yourself.

#fediblock #fediverse

First of all what is “culture”?

We humans have borders that divide us into tribes. The rules of the division are not always clear. Language? But USA and Australia speak the same language…
Same is the case for South Africa, England, Sudan, Botswana, Nigeria, Singapore, Namibia or Ghana. And some 100 more tribes:

French? Some 50 tribes speak French!

The fact is that there are many tribes that speak the same language yet their cultures can be totally different.

So what makes a “culture” is a soup of traditions, beliefs, religion, food, knowledge, art, clothing style, humor, sport, and so on.

A cluster of values that makes a group of people a bit different from another.

In that sense cultures are not only limited by borders and tribes, but they can form around a topic of interest such as gaming, movies, even celebrities.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #language #games #movies #english #french

You should follow Big World small Sasha on Peertube - videos.trom.tf/c/big_world_sma…

She is making very interesting hiking videos. And she posts on Peertube! :)

We need more people who create original content to use Peertube. Without the content the platform cannot evolve.

#peertube #fedi #fediverse #videos #hiking #nature

We have to increase a bit the fundraiser due to some "sales taxes"... gofundme.com/f/yearly-fundrais…

Apparently we had to pay that too...

Thank you so much everyone! We are 83% there!

#fediverse #fedi #donation #volunteer #tromsite #trom

Yearly Fundraiser for our Backups - gofund.me/d96c58985

Hello friends,

We need to pay for our backups every year. We backup with borgbase.com all of our websites. Two servers, a total of around 3TB of data.

We backup:

- tromsite.com
- videoneat.com
- tromjaro.com
- trade-free.org
- directory.trade-free.org
- trom.tf - all of our services: Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, etc.

See all of our projects here tromsite.com/

Many thanks!

#campaign #foss #fediverse #fedi #tromsite

We added more apps to the TROMjaro trade-free app library

tromjaro.com/apps/

#apps #linux #trade-free #foss #opensource

Thank you Lenka for becoming our 93rd supporter tromsite.com/donate/ :)

7 more needed to reach our first goal :)

We have one more supporter, 92 in total! And a 50 Euros donation! Thank you Veniamin tromsite.com/donate/

These days will try to work on some scripts for the videos.

We still need some 8 or so more people to reach our final goal ;)

We have 2 new subscribers to our 200 for TROM campaign - tromsite.com/donate/

Thank Aaron and Wilf!

We need 9 more people in order to achieve our first goal: start a video series, bring back TROMnews and provide 20GB storage space for TROM Files for all users.

#opensource #foss #society #trom #tromsite #campaign #fedi