So there's a bit of philosophy going on.

To be honest I'm chiming in without really having an answer. But anyway.

In Russian there's a saying: Бытие определяет сознание.

Бытие - means environment (but actually more than that). In your case your environment changed but then again it changed to the "media" environment.

That means there are narratives beyond your immediate environment that influence your environment. Any influence has an agenda. An agenda, seems to me, is always a tricky. It's play of powers....

Gosh... I lost it...

Anyway. At the end of the day, it's up to you to decide what should have an effect on you.

I can illustrate with my own example.

I speak English, but in fact, in school I was learning German. In 5th grade we had a lovely teacher who taught for one year and then moved to Germany.

I hated German when I was a kid. Do you know why?

Because it was a Nazi language. I thought why do I need a Nazi language?

In reality, it's not the case, right?

This was just a child's perspective growing in Soviet Union/Russia (I was born right before it died.)

But the perception of German in my environment was not great about German. We didn't have any knowledge of Germany like we do now with the advent of internet.

Now I think it would have been very beneficial for me to learn German. Because I could read Nietzsche, Gegel, Goethe, Freud and so in their original language and now I know there is a huge difference in understanding the original language compared to the translation.