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..
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.
If Bill Gates walks into a bar of poor men, suddenly the GDP per capita of said bar raises to a few million. In quite a few of those countries, this is the case. Almost every single country with a higher GDP per capita than the US has a very small population.
The word culture is such a relative term. There is no such thing as more or less culture; no country in the world has more or less culture than any other country in the world.
Let me tell you the most basic thing of American Culture : It's an exageration of itself.
EG : It's very american to want BIG POWERFUL CARS (I worked for General Motors btw) so they exagerate to the point where they build the HUMMER, a car (truck) which is conceptwise stupid but very understandable from the exageration pov. The same goes for the concept "Freedom of choice". Big ice cream shops consider themselves big when they have "freedom of choice" so they exagerate to the point where they have 300+ flavours of ice cream. Again, having the flavour "red dirt" (I have seen it btw) can be seen as pointless but from the "exagerated freedom of choice pov" it's normal and desireable.
Now, from the foreign uneducated pov, a very American thing can be seen as pants on head retarded but if you really pay attention it's just an exageration of what a person raised in the US wants.
On January 22 2012 05:04 Lightwip wrote: Perhaps "no culture" is just another way of saying "no rich history of church dominance and religious oppression." Apparently, if things have relative stability, they are bad.
Let me introduce you to Texas.......... You have a part of your country called the Bible belt where it is seen as an outrage that Darwinism and Big Bang is being taught instead of creationism and yet you make a statement like that? Holy christ Lightwip, I knew you were a funny guy, but that one is on par with the dental puns by Vermin Supreme.....
And again, the "no culture" is usually used in conjunction with the complete lack of sensitivity of some tourists when visiting a foreign country.... Just like Germans are all known to eat wurst and sauerkraut 24/7, the brits are pompous pricks who do nothing but drink tea all day and the french can hoist a white flag quicker than an italian tank can retreat, a spanish worker can fall asleep or a russian can drain a bottle of vodka (I think I hit most of the major stereotypes, if not I'll gladly include a few more - they are just that, stereotypes and one should really just laugh and shrug at them).
On January 22 2012 05:04 Lightwip wrote: Perhaps "no culture" is just another way of saying "no rich history of church dominance and religious oppression." Apparently, if things have relative stability, they are bad.
Let me introduce you to Texas.......... You have a part of your country called the Bible belt where it is seen as an outrage that Darwinism and Big Bang is being taught instead of creationism and yet you make a statement like that? Holy christ Lightwip, I knew you were a funny guy, but that one is on par with the dental puns by Vermin Supreme.....
And again, the "no culture" is usually used in conjunction with the complete lack of sensitivity of some tourists when visiting a foreign country.... Just like Germans are all known to eat wurst and sauerkraut 24/7, the brits are pompous pricks who do nothing but drink tea all day and the french can hoist a white flag quicker than an italian tank can retreat, a spanish worker can fall asleep or a russian can drain a bottle of vodka (I think I hit most of the major stereotypes, if not I'll gladly include a few more - they are just that, stereotypes and one should really just laugh and shrug at them).
On January 22 2012 05:04 Lightwip wrote: Perhaps "no culture" is just another way of saying "no rich history of church dominance and religious oppression." Apparently, if things have relative stability, they are bad.
Let me introduce you to Texas.......... You have a part of your country called the Bible belt where it is seen as an outrage that Darwinism and Big Bang is being taught instead of creationism and yet you make a statement like that? Holy christ Lightwip, I knew you were a funny guy, but that one is on par with the dental puns by Vermin Supreme.....
And again, the "no culture" is usually used in conjunction with the complete lack of sensitivity of some tourists when visiting a foreign country.... Just like Germans are all known to eat wurst and sauerkraut 24/7, the brits are pompous pricks who do nothing but drink tea all day and the french can hoist a white flag quicker than an italian tank can retreat, a spanish worker can fall asleep or a russian can drain a bottle of vodka (I think I hit most of the major stereotypes, if not I'll gladly include a few more - they are just that, stereotypes and one should really just laugh and shrug at them).
Perhaps I've misinterpreted you, but are you suggesting it is okay to stereotype Americans because all Americans stereotype other nationalities.(this notion is a stereotype in itself). Although I agree that Lightwip didn't make the most enlightened comment, it's not like you've made yourself look good in your response. In my opinion the idea that America has no culture is because the people who currently inhabit America can't trace their lineage back to the "homeland" like many people in Europe can. When Europe was erecting enormous temples, the people who's ancestors would eventually inhabit America were likely helping build those very structures. American culture is a difficult idea to grasp because it is essentially a continuation of European cultures. Where does European culture end and American culture begin? America was settled long before America became a nation. Does American culture begin when the first Europeans stepped off the boat? Or maybe it begins when the first Europeans stepped off Europe onto the boat.. So does that make these first Europeans Americans? Maybe American culture begins when the declaration of independence is approved, but then again Americans, (or are they European settlers?) had already been separating from the British government before the declaration of independence was approved... and even after it was approved there were still a significant chunk of the population who didn't want to separate from the British. My point is American culture is a vague term because the current American population doesn't have any distinctly American roots. They can all be traced back to Europe (and Africa, Asia, South American, and Different countries in North America for that matter). "American culture" is hard to define, and its hard to say what American culture really is... So I guess it's just easier for some people to say America has no culture, because after all they're from Europe, and that means they're usually right about these things.
On January 22 2012 05:04 Lightwip wrote: Perhaps "no culture" is just another way of saying "no rich history of church dominance and religious oppression." Apparently, if things have relative stability, they are bad.
Let me introduce you to Texas.......... You have a part of your country called the Bible belt where it is seen as an outrage that Darwinism and Big Bang is being taught instead of creationism and yet you make a statement like that? Holy christ Lightwip, I knew you were a funny guy, but that one is on par with the dental puns by Vermin Supreme.....
And again, the "no culture" is usually used in conjunction with the complete lack of sensitivity of some tourists when visiting a foreign country.... Just like Germans are all known to eat wurst and sauerkraut 24/7, the brits are pompous pricks who do nothing but drink tea all day and the french can hoist a white flag quicker than an italian tank can retreat, a spanish worker can fall asleep or a russian can drain a bottle of vodka (I think I hit most of the major stereotypes, if not I'll gladly include a few more - they are just that, stereotypes and one should really just laugh and shrug at them).
Lol, I think that one's a little more than a stereotype. But, I see what you're saying. It just seems that American stereotypes are said with much more hostility than the ones you mentioned.
Also, isn't it strange that people say a country's become "Americanized." What's that mean?
Could it possibly mean, *gasps*, that the country acquired parts of American "culture."
American cultue is EVERYWHERE in our world now, in every little big or open country on this planet i'm sure you will find American culture, coca-cola, where can you not find this, the smallest town in the most northern nepal has cola, the most desert place of india has cola, mcdonalds is everywhere, fastfood, kfc, buger king, american music is reckon and if not the most popular in the world along with english music, rock 'n'roll for that matter.
American tv series is broadcasted in every country, video games, american and the knowledge along with language is so deep in danish culture even here that it's changing out language words are being popularized, people say we go out shopping, i love to shop, not "handle in"
as we did 40 years ago since americanism and globalization was introduced in my country, mcdonals entered here in the early 80's. we watch american movies in tv everyday, the simpsons, family guy with danish subtitbles, friends, scrubs we start watching this when we are 8 years old, i'm 22 now and i can speak fairly fluent in english because of this, i believe us who grow up with this don't even have to look at the subtitles anymore.
You're no longer popular in schoo herel if you don't know about the colbert show, or you've seen this funny SNL clip on youtube because it's foreign and american
We're being exposed to english like 60% of our day that our mind now automatically translate. the internet, computer games as said are in english. my favorite bands are from america, i love bobby darin, nat king cole. there's not a single day without this exposure and i fear it's gonna slowly erase our own integrity in the future. tho i think it wont but i fear of this massive influx.
The influence on the entire world america has had the last 60 years is even potrayed in rammsteins song
face it guys the worlds biggest firms and headquarters are mostly placed in america. Think what our world would look like without america. frightning right. entrepreneurship is one of the key strengths in america especially if you succeed, look at apple, microsoft. BILLIONS!
On January 22 2012 05:04 Lightwip wrote: Perhaps "no culture" is just another way of saying "no rich history of church dominance and religious oppression." Apparently, if things have relative stability, they are bad.
Let me introduce you to Texas.......... You have a part of your country called the Bible belt where it is seen as an outrage that Darwinism and Big Bang is being taught instead of creationism and yet you make a statement like that? Holy christ Lightwip, I knew you were a funny guy, but that one is on par with the dental puns by Vermin Supreme.....
Yes, let's all have a distorted view of other countries and pretend that it's fact! What a wonderful thing to do. If you didn't know it already, most Americans are just as fond of Fox, Texas, and the bible belt as Europeans are. + Show Spoiler +
But I hope you realize how much more smoothly things in general run in a smaller country. Denmark is far more homogenous than the United States, a large entity consisting of many, many immigrants from everywhere. China, Russia, and India have a similar situation.
On January 22 2012 03:12 Mondieu wrote: America has no history, now that is true.
Trying to think of something that Romania is known for...
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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.
BURN! There are hot girls in Romania. But he clearly answered the question, the OP misinterpreted 'Americans have no culture'. :D
On January 22 2012 05:32 Zoler wrote: Canada invented basketball.
England invented baseball.
lol
American walked on the moon.
Russians first in space.
Am i doing this right?
Sending a guy on a glorified rollercoaster.
Sending a man to walk on the face of another planet.
Not entirely the same thing.
Nobody sent a man on another planet. And I blame America for this. (You too Russia.) But I have faith in China! And Russia was more developped space-wise than USA at a point.
On January 22 2012 05:32 Zoler wrote: Canada invented basketball.
England invented baseball.
lol
American walked on the moon.
Russians first in space.
Am i doing this right?
Sending a guy on a glorified rollercoaster.
Sending a man to walk on the face of another planet.
Not entirely the same thing.
Nobody sent a man on another planet. And I blame America for this. (You too Russia.) But I have faith in China! And Russia was more developped space-wise than USA at a point.
EPT
