DarkStar
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I've been meaning to make a thread about this for a while now.
What do you guys think about the exportation of American culture? For instance, how do you Brits feel about being forcefed American movies, music, television, magazines, fastfood, softdrinks, celebrities, corporations, products, etc?
From Spiderman to Linkin Park to The Simpsons to Entertainment Weekly to McDonalds to Coke to Ben Affleck to Time Warner to Microsoft Windows it seems that America dominates world culture more and more everyday. Personally I think it's a travesty. I visited Australia a few years ago expecting to have a unique experience. What I found was essentially little carbon copies of US cities everywhere I went. It was profoundly depressing.
Sure, the rest of the world hates our government. But they absolutely cannot get enough of our stuff. As an American, I see it as a very disturbing trend. This homogenization is destroying what was once awesome and special in every corner of the globe. Popular literature is just about the only thing that America has yet to corner the market on (thank God).
So, go at it.
What do you guys think about the exportation of American culture? For instance, how do you Brits feel about being forcefed American movies, music, television, magazines, fastfood, softdrinks, celebrities, corporations, products, etc?
From Spiderman to Linkin Park to The Simpsons to Entertainment Weekly to McDonalds to Coke to Ben Affleck to Time Warner to Microsoft Windows it seems that America dominates world culture more and more everyday. Personally I think it's a travesty. I visited Australia a few years ago expecting to have a unique experience. What I found was essentially little carbon copies of US cities everywhere I went. It was profoundly depressing.
Sure, the rest of the world hates our government. But they absolutely cannot get enough of our stuff. As an American, I see it as a very disturbing trend. This homogenization is destroying what was once awesome and special in every corner of the globe. Popular literature is just about the only thing that America has yet to corner the market on (thank God).
So, go at it.