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The world truly loves American culture. It can't be denied. Or they can't keep out American 'culture'.
Americans have no culture? - Page 25
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metbull
United States404 Posts
and and The world truly loves American culture. It can't be denied. Or they can't keep out American 'culture'. | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
On January 22 2012 03:43 TheAntZ wrote: Alright, you have your points. I still believe its absurd to call the sport football, and regardless of the origins of the word that wont change, but I respect you going out of your way to educate me on the history of it The etymology totally makes sense. I can think of way more absurd English words. For example, China. China hasn't been ruled by the Qin since 200 BC. | ||
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Techno
1900 Posts
Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (2005), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and "tut-ball". I saw this on Canadian Tv: So yea, a Canadian invented it IN America. My perspective is that of a Canadian. We are nigh American, but I feel like we don't quite have the extreme highs and lows of American culture that seems evident to me. American culture has many factors. The biggest one being how many Americans there are. There is a lot of them. The thing that seperates Americans from other nationalities, from our perspective, is alot more greasy food, cheaper alcohol, more principle based, conservative reasoning & a religious insanity only rivalled by the middle east and certain parts of asia. Hollywood and California are in America. They are a huge source of modern fashion and mainstream styles. This ripples out into the USA in the form of an image obsession. Ofc, this obsession is also present in other countries, but since it's origin is American, it's strongest in America. | ||
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WOPR
Canada145 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
On January 22 2012 02:11 Jibba wrote: Yes. All Chinese menus are lying. How on earth are chicken, beef and shrimp going to be a Happy Family? They don't even speak the same animal language. Complete nonsense. looooooooool | ||
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Rylaji
Sweden580 Posts
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Techno
1900 Posts
On January 21 2012 17:03 Terranist wrote: i've heard that we have no history, but culture? lol. the world revolves around america and everyone else is a jealous hater. /thread This is the main aspect of American culture to many Americans. And it's what infuriates and amuses people outside of America. I know that not all Americans are like this, but I kinda feel bad for the normies down there. Come up to Canada, its better here. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
It certainly doesn't anger me. I find it pretty funny  | ||
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RetroAspect
Belgium219 Posts
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allecto
328 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:31 RetroAspect wrote: America is the world's leading Military and economical power. A decade ago one could add Political power to that, two decades or three decades ago one could also add cultural power to that. No longer. Just curious who do you think the world leading Political power and cultural powers are? | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:25 StarStruck wrote: Correction. Americans think the world revolves around them. It certainly doesn't anger me. I find it pretty funny actually my public school education taught me we revolve around a sun. which revolves around in a spiral galaxy pretty much on the edge of it which is expanding at an accelerating rate outwards from a point of origin. | ||
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RetroAspect
Belgium219 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:33 allecto wrote: Just curious who do you think the world leading Political power and cultural powers are? No countries at all really stand out atm, that is clear as water no? Im just stating facts, don't try to make it sound like im drawing conclusions, that is up to people who read the facts. | ||
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allecto
328 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:35 RetroAspect wrote: No countries at all really stand out atm, that is clear as water no? Im just stating facts, don't try to make it sound like im drawing conclusions, that is up to people who read the facts. Claiming any one country is the world cultural "power" at any one time seems pretty much like an opinion to me, and not a fact. | ||
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Techno
1900 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:31 RetroAspect wrote: America is the world's leading Military and economical power. A decade ago one could add Political power to that, two decades or three decades ago one could also add cultural power to that. No longer. It's economical lead is threatened by China (in pure GDP value) , only it's military aspect remains no 1 by orders of magnitude.. Per capita the US is bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita Yea I mean you got some rich Wall Street dicks running your country, but I wouldnt be bragging about that. T_T The US is in a tailspin, I just hope you don't bring the rest of the world with you. | ||
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allecto
328 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:38 Techno wrote: Per capita the US is bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita Yea I mean you got some rich Wall Street dicks running your country, but I wouldnt be bragging about that. T_T The US is in a tailspin, I just hope you don't bring the rest of the world with you. I don't know where you've been, but pretty much the entire world is in an economic tailspin. I don't think it's just the US that's going to be bringing down the rest of the world. | ||
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Serpico
4285 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:38 Techno wrote: Per capita the US is bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita Yea I mean you got some rich Wall Street dicks running your country, but I wouldnt be bragging about that. T_T The US is in a tailspin, I just hope you don't bring the rest of the world with you. Uhhh let's not sling shit with how Europe is doing right now. This is why all the insults at each other are incredibly comical, many countries are in trouble. Culture is irrelevant right now, I'd rather survive and improve the economy. | ||
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danielrosca
Romania123 Posts
History and tradition... it's almost 2 millennia behind Europe and Asia, no point to have high expectations about that. | ||
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RetroAspect
Belgium219 Posts
On January 22 2012 04:38 Techno wrote: Per capita the US is bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita Yea I mean you got some rich Wall Street dicks running your country, but I wouldnt be bragging about that. T_T The US is in a tailspin, I just hope you don't bring the rest of the world with you. i DID'nt say per capita, i said PURE gdp, as in nominal... sigh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) | ||
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
Apparently, if things have relative stability, they are bad. | ||
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xrapture
United States1644 Posts
On January 22 2012 03:20 HoldenR wrote: Your own ignorance is not a testimony to anything but your own ignorance. Why would you think telling people you don't know something about X proves a point about X? All it proves is how little you know and how proud you are of it. Think he's trying to say that most people in the world couldn't mention a thing about Romania, but the United States is known everywhere. | ||
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