LOOK AT HEX. A BEAUTIFUL, TERRIFYING STORY ABOUT  THE CRUELTY OF HUMANS THROUGH A FANTASY HORROR LENSE, THAT IS FIRMLY SET IN THE NETHERLANDS. IT CONSTANTLY REFERENCES DUTCG CULTURE, LOCATIONS, PRODUCTS, CONCEPTS. ITS VERY DUTCH. I LOVE THAT ITS DUTCH. IT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY AS A DUTCH PERSON. IT'S ONE KF MY FAVOURITE BOOKS. I LOVE IT.

I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I HEARD IT WAS ALSO INTERNATIONALLY POPULAR! YAY DITCH CULTURE IS FINALLY SEEN INTERNATI- oh they changed it to be set in America.... I HATE IT. I HATE IT SM. WHY??? I GENUINELY FIND IT TRAGIC. IT MAKES ME SO SAD. THE INCREDIBLE DUTCHNESS WAS A BIG PART OF WHY I LIKED IT. WHY MUST THIS HAPPEN??? 

"Olde Heuvelt beautifully localised the story to be relatable to American audiences" Thats a bad thing actually. Them being unable to relate to non American stories is a problem. And if we never allow them to see non American stories, nothing will ever change. Why don't we raise them to be more multipe cultural, instead of coddling them? It's such a one way street too... Europeans are expected to just relate to American television with little to no localisation, high school? cheerleading? not a thing here but deal with it? But foreign concepts when a foreign story gets translated to English? scrap it. Just like... fucking accept you won't be able to relate to everything and see it as a chance to experience a story from a different experience of life to your own, that can ve fun if you aren't so fearful of it. This stuff is just peak Americancentrism and it pisses me off. I wish the Americans got to see thr beauty of my country instead of a random small town in new york... (Also yes i know the author of the book also did the English translation and therefore any localisation changes have been done by this Dutch man, i dont fucking care, he made a wrong choice and im angry about it.)

"Well they wont know what Sanadome is, its confusing for them" google is free, i didn't know about the gateway arch till Percy Jackson so bad excuse 

The entire point of "they can't relate to anything non-american" is also just kinda wrong? anime is so fucking popular, that stuff is just set in Japan, and we learn to deal with these concepts? so why not with German culture? French culture? Hungarian culture? \*Dutch culture?\* 

(Also this is NOT hatred to Americans, this is hatred to systems that push Americancentrism, which are partially upheld by non-american translators too scared to take the leap of faith and letting beautiful different cultures shine for international eyes)

I HATE NON AMERICAN STORIES SUDDENLY BEING SET IN AMERICA WHEN THEY'RE TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH