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Vindicare605
United States16126 Posts
I'm from California, and the culture out here is WAY different than you'd find in the midwest. | ||
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dubRa
2165 Posts
Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class? | ||
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29 fps
United States5725 Posts
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gosuRob
United States319 Posts
On January 21 2012 19:56 Vindicare605 wrote: Even every state within the union has different cultures. I'm from California, and the culture out here is WAY different than you'd find in the midwest. Same here, basically we have a mix of all cultures almost i'd say. | ||
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote: The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think. Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class? Poetry doesn't even get taught in the Netherlands. No, not even as a part of literature. | ||
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slytown
Korea (South)1411 Posts
Interesting fact: Paris is considered the epitome of sophisticated cities to japanese citizens. However, when they visit Paris they come to find out the city and it's people don't live up to the stereotype. The result is masses of Japanese tourists returning to Japan severly depressed at the sort of reverse-culture shock. It's so bad, Japan has a 24-hr hotline at it's embassy in Paris you can call to get counseling for what's been called "Paris Syndrome." | ||
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Kotreb
Croatia1392 Posts
@zalz: the fact that i/a lot of people in the world can speak english i would actually contribute to England and it's expansionism, but i do agree on the part that no one forces americans to learn some other language/get to know some other culture (although if they actually put some effort in they could because their first neighbor is Mexico which, i hope we can all agree on this, has some very vivid and interesting culture...the thing is that they just refuse it) and about the aforementioned movie, might i ask who wrote those reviews? I know this is completely subjectional, but after watching both versions i would have to disagree with critics. Swedish version is much better, at least to me. But on the other hand I always like originals more than remakes. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On January 21 2012 19:52 Starshaped wrote: I didn't realize baseball was a multinational sport, lol. American football and baseball I thought were basically only played/cared about in the states. Baseball is huge in Japan. But he didn't say football was multinational, he said baseball and basketball, and while both sports are very very minor in most countries, at least you play them, I would be surprised to find any European who didn't play basketball in school during gym class or such. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On January 21 2012 20:03 zalz wrote: Poetry doesn't even get taught in the Netherlands. No, not even as a part of literature. That seems very odd. Is there a reason for that? ;o | ||
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Chargelot
2275 Posts
On January 21 2012 16:44 Chro wrote: America doesn't really have a culture. One of the main parts of culture is how/why you do something. In america the only reason you do something is because of money. Its all about business and efficiency. Its why everyone sees us as jerks and cocky bastards, because that's what our business culture brings us up as when we're young. As opposed to Europe, where they do everything for waffles. They can't get enough waffles. I heard there was a huge waffle shortage in Greece recently, and a lot of the countries that surrounded Greece didn't want to give their waffles up to help the waffleless. Fucking waffle hoarders. | ||
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Epoch
Canada257 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On January 21 2012 20:05 Tobberoth wrote: Baseball is huge in Japan. But he didn't say football was multinational, he said baseball and basketball, and while both sports are very very minor in most countries, at least you play them, I would be surprised to find any European who didn't play basketball in school during gym class or such. I wouldn't say basketball is minor in most countries at all. I would imagine it is the most popular indoor sport in Europe by some margin. Baseball is a whole different matter, I can't really tell why it was put in the same basket (pardon the pun) with basketball in the OP. | ||
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Xcobidoo
Sweden1871 Posts
On January 21 2012 16:51 KimJongChill wrote: They probably mean to say that America lacks cultural refinement. This. Some of the things you see as american culture might still be seen as just a "trend" whilst other countries have had time to grow and evolve several cultural aspects. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On January 21 2012 16:38 Nothingtosay wrote: A recent pm about this matter has truly been irking me. Made my weekend. | ||
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Medzo
United States627 Posts
People just take our culture and then cant seem to find ours because they made it part of their own. On a side note I lol'd at the people who say that its dumb that "Lots of Americans think that evolution is a theory." It is a theory.... so is gravity. Try looking up what a scientific theory means. Also the guy who posted a video of dumb Americans, you could make the same video in any country. | ||
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funk100
United Kingdom172 Posts
On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote: The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think. Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class? England here, the english GCSE (exam for 16 year olds) requires study of 3 clusters of poems: one is poems from different cultures, the second is pre-1914 poems with poets like Ben johnson, Charles Tichborne and Shakespeare and the last was post-1914 peoms, with poets like Carol anne Duffy and Simon Armitage. | ||
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Geo.Rion
7377 Posts
On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote: The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think. Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class? it's a very different kind of challenge then the usual tests/homeworks, it kinda forces you to deal with stage fright and such. I hated it a lot though | ||
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Kotreb
Croatia1392 Posts
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Duff3233
France6 Posts
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ondik
Czech Republic2908 Posts
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