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Offline Shrike

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
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Originally posted by Tiara
If you consider that cultural dominance, i pitty you. I really pitty you.

I'm actually glad you were the ones that came up with the idea for MTV *shrugs* At least they can't blame me for that abomination.

Also, I never said that America has no culture of it's own but it's nowhere NEAR that of Europe or Asia. Do you have a history about a few millenia long? Did America have the medieval era? Does America have any artists/visionaries that have influenced everyone throughout the centuries?

Just to name a few REAL cultural landmarks;

- Hippocrates
- Leonardo DaVinci
- (Sorry to say this :p) The Church and the Christian religion
- Chinese dynasties
- [insert about a gazillion other cultural landmarks]

That's culture. Not some gawdforsaken TV program that'll be forgotten in a hunmdred years... Not some fast-food branch that'll be gone in time. No, culture is something that LASTS
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I think you're using the wrong definition of culture there Tiara.  Landmarks don't do a great deal for behavioral patterns which is really what culture is all about.  With coke comes american culture, with american culture comes levis, with levis comes more american culture... it doesn't matter if it's shallow and a flash in the pan.  It's far more pervasive, even little bits of it, than almost anything else.
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Offline Bobboau

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
maybe that's becase it's realy good and everyone likes it :)
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Offline Flipside

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
It's a high speed culture for a world that is accelerating. It's not about spending 200 years carving angels in the flying buttresses anymore, which is kind of a pity, but it's also not unexpected.

Even Art these days is largely done in a very short space of time, DaVinci spent years working on his pieces. Once again, not worse, just different.

Theres no such real thing as culture, it's easy to wrap History up in the same box and call it culture, but it's not really.

Take Canterbury Cathedral. Yes, it's a gorgeous building, but while it was sitting there, being gorgeous, and being used by the Elite of society, 90% of the people in the country were busy just trying to get food on the plate, and maybe having a bath once a month ;)

 

Offline Knight Templar

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
That's right. Without us, you wouldn't have Levi's. Or Cowboy hats. Take that world culture!
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Offline Ford Prefect

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
I hate jeans.
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Offline Knight Templar

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
Jeans are life.
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Offline Ford Prefect

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
Chinos are the way to go. I haven't worn jeans since I was about 11.
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Offline Bobboau

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
you must be a terrorist then,
someone call Lord Ashcroft, this one needs to be taken away.
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Offline vyper

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Finally, someone's got the right idea.
You invented Levis, but 'tis just a brand name using Jeans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans
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