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Model View Culture confronts . It is flabbergasting that LINE–an app that Messenger and WhatsApp in Thailand and Indonesia–or WeChat or even Alibaba would ever be so baldly described as “little-known.” Little known to Americans or Europeans? Perhaps, since they were not part of the original target market. But “little known” to millions of people in Asia? Certainly not. This pattern reflects the arrogance and shortsightedness of tech publications which, although often having primarily Western ...