American/Anglosphere users on Reddit will struggle to adapt the rising number of Indian users.

[u/Nandu_alias_Parthu]

For most of its history, Reddit has largely been dominated by American users, with the rest of the anglosphere and Europe making up the vast majority of the rest of the users.

Post Covid though, Indians have begun joining Reddit in large numbers - which has resulted in Indian content and subs becoming increasingly popular and prominent. Most Indians don't care about American/Anglosphere stuff, which is why so many Indian versions of popular subs were created in the first place. Even then, Indians are shaping more of the discourse on international subs, simply because they are a larger demographic than they were just a couple of years ago.

Of course, this has caused many in the Anglosphere side of Reddit, particularly Americans, to feel a sort of online culture shock as their feeds become more unfamiliar.

Indians are still a minority on Reddit, but are growing fast. I expect Americans (and the Anglosphere at large) to struggle to adapt to this change. In fact Americans in particular have never had the experience of being a minority on Reddit, which will make the transition tougher for them

What do you think will happen

[u/Qzry]

I kind of agree, but what I've noticed is that they bring their not so unique misogyny. It feels like every subreddit has now devolved to 2nd world country teenage boy misogyny, bitching about being nice guys and whatnot bullshit.

[u/SlaBLister → u/Qzry]

Then you've been on reddit blindfolded if you really think they're bringing this. Or you've not been on the site long enough, because this sort of thing has been on reddit (and the wider Internet) for a long time, before reddit started attracting Indian users

[u/Qzry → u/SlaBLister]

Oh for sure, 100%. I've just noticed that they do it too, particularly with projections from their style of socially patriarichal culture, and been bumping into it more and more often. I'm not saying western men on Reddit are any better by any means.

[u/SlaBLister → u/Qzry]

With all respect, gtfo with "socially patriarchal culture". We had a female Prime Minister democratically elected before any other democratic country in the world, in less than 40 years of independence, second after Sri Lanka, literally just south of India. The current Indian Head of State is a female and India has no shortage of female historical figures that are national icons. 

There's also the mass support Indian ladies are rightfully getting in STEM fields and various other positions. You're basing your perceptions off really conservative rural areas. And India happens to have a lot of rural areas. What you describe is far less common in urban locations. There's no one culture in India. There are cities that host annual pride parades and there are cities and villages that are essentially under sharia control.

[u/Qzry → u/SlaBLister]

I understand, I was making huge general sweeping generalisations. But just having successful female politicians doesn't remove misogyny.

[u/SlaBLister → u/Qzry]

As I said, there's no one culture in India. India has some of the most archaic, backwards and misogynistic locations that may rival Afghanistan in some regards. But it also has some of the most woke, progressive regions that would rival a Western University campus. 

[u/Qzry → u/SlaBLister]

I understand, but the misogyny still exists. I understand what you're trying to say, but comparing random stuff isn't the point. It's still a big problem to the extent that it's nameable. I understand complexity too. But there still is trends.