Callng the first one Worldcon because it was at a World's Fair was reasonable. Continuing to call it that while holding it every year in the US was arrogant and like much colonial/imperial issues of the past should not determine what we do 75(!) years later, particularly when there has been a serious effort to make it more international while retaining its culture. But anyway, we're getting off the point which is that Worldcon IS an international event and is intended to be so by its constitution. The original point in this thread was about people who don't understand that the Hugo Awards belong to WSFS/Worldcon. Saying that Worldcon isn't World simply because the name first came about because of the World's Fair and ignoring the decades of acceptance and promotion of it being a World event (albeit one with strong cultural links to US fandom and a high proportion of events in the US) is not a good argument in general and is distracting from the original point, which is that the Hugos belong to WSFS/Worldcon and those people who complain about aspects of the Hugo process that are connected to Worldcon are at best misinformed.
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Date: 2015-08-03 12:06 am (UTC)The original point in this thread was about people who don't understand that the Hugo Awards belong to WSFS/Worldcon. Saying that Worldcon isn't World simply because the name first came about because of the World's Fair and ignoring the decades of acceptance and promotion of it being a World event (albeit one with strong cultural links to US fandom and a high proportion of events in the US) is not a good argument in general and is distracting from the original point, which is that the Hugos belong to WSFS/Worldcon and those people who complain about aspects of the Hugo process that are connected to Worldcon are at best misinformed.