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The American attitude towards reading foreign words is bewildering. It's completely understandable to not know how to read one, but when a youtuber or the like spends multiple days, if not weeks, if not months, researching a topic for a video and doesn't bother to spend 20 seconds asking Google Translate how to read the name of the thing that's literally the subject of the video, it's just plain ignorant. Nobody expects you to pronounce them well, but we do expect you to at least try instead of making up a butchered pronunciation on the spot. Bonus points if you then get fussy about it and try to defend it like "that's how I/we read it". Yes, you read it wrong. That's the problem.

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