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yet another anti-American thing to piss me off
Lars von Trier, this time. He was spouting off about the flaws of America and American society, yet he's never even visited the US!
How can he claim to have any real understanding if he hasn't visited? And how can he really think that the perception he gets from the media is an accurate reflection? Hollywood isn't America. The New York Times isn't America. How can you know what American society is like if you've never experienced it?
How can he claim to have any real understanding if he hasn't visited? And how can he really think that the perception he gets from the media is an accurate reflection? Hollywood isn't America. The New York Times isn't America. How can you know what American society is like if you've never experienced it?
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Remember: American culture, especially American low culture, is visible everywhere on this benighted mudball - which probably doesn't help the antiterrorist cause, to be honest. It's not just Hollywood and the newspapers, it's the television, and the television news, and so forth. The American masses judge the rest of the world by what they see on TV and in the cinema and in the newspapers; I'd suggest you shouldn't be too surprised when a foreigner judges America by what he sees on TV and in the cinema and in the newspapers.
What that won't show him, of course, is that American is probably no more monolithic in its cultural identity than the European Union, despite the common language etc. But a nation's media always, to some extent, reflect its national character, albeit through a distorting mirror that highlights extremity and conceals mundanities.
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"about a place he's never seen..."
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I've never judged an Iraqi by the actions of Saddam, and similarly I never judge an American by the action of a Bush.
The similarities between European and North American culture and lifestyle far outweigh the differences.