Is American Culture Being Overwhelmed By Foreign Cultures?

[DaShi]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I live in America. Everyday, I see gradual eradication of American culture by foreign cultures. You can't drive down and city or town road anymore without seeing twenty Chinese restaurants. Speaking of food, how come everyone will say, "Let's go out for Chinese, Italian, Mexican, etc."?However, no one ever says, "Let's go out for American." They'll say, "lets go to McDonalds" instead placing the food in cultural obscurity.

Where else but America (and possibly Canadia) can you find so many culturally distinct districts within nearly every major city? We've got China Town, Little Italies, Japanese Lands, and Harlem. Where is America Burb?

Go to many of our major universities. You'll find that many of the students enrolled are not Americans. They'll go to class and listen to lectures in English, but look at their notes. They're all in scribbles and wingdings.

In addition, many of the foreign people who work at said universities don't even celebrate the holidays here. They'll work on Good Friday and New Year's Day. Oh, they'll celebrate the New Year but in February.

The worst of all is that there is hardly anything American left here anymore. Nearly everything is made overseas. Our clothing is made in China and Taiwan. Our cars are made in Japan. I once even saw an American flag made in Singapore.

So help save American culture before it is lost to the ages.

[Bereta_Eder]

what american culture?

(obvious )

[DaShi]

Exactly!

[BeBMan]

Can´t help you, ask Boddingtons

[HershOstropoler]

Whatever happened to America's cultural domination of the world?

[Bereta_Eder]

Dashi is leftist so he always plays himself as the victim.

[BeBMan]

The US is being overrun by foreign cultural imperialism.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Dashi is leftist so he always plays himself as the victim.

Because I am the victim of a heartless society controlled by foreigners and corporations and religion and aliens!

[Japher]

They're all in scribbles and wingdings.

That is so true!

Tell you what. What makes America great is immigration, and the fact that there are these many nationalities mingled into an amalgum of culture that is American culture...

I have been ridiculed by people who say America has no culture, and I have been yelled at by people who say that America's culture is overbearing... Some people are stupid.

I am just happy to live in a country where I can get cultural foods made by cultural people. American culture is still alive; just go to a sporting event and you will see it, go to sports bar, or even an Irish bar, and you will see it... Get out of the big cities, and you will find it...

[MRT144]

god bless foriegn culture for without it i would surely starve

[Worthingtons]

Is American Culture Being Overwhelmed By Foreign Cultures?

No, but English Culture is.

[BeBMan]

For English food that doesn´t seem too bad

[The Templar]

Re: Is American Culture Being Overwhelmed By Foreign Cultures?

Originally posted by DaShi
I don't know about the rest of you, but I live in America. Everyday, I see gradual eradication of American culture by foreign cultures. You can't drive down and city or town road anymore without seeing twenty Chinese restaurants. Speaking of food, how come everyone will say, "Let's go out for Chinese, Italian, Mexican, etc."?However, no one ever says, "Let's go out for American." They'll say, "lets go to McDonalds" instead placing the food in cultural obscurity.

If Micky D's passes for US culture, than this is a good thing. Perhaps US culture is precisely putting all of this variety together on the same street?

Where else but America (and possibly Canadia) can you find so many culturally distinct districts within nearly every major city? We've got China Town, Little Italies, Japanese Lands, and Harlem. Where is America Burb?

Harlem? Harlem is pure US!

The worst of all is that there is hardly anything American left here anymore. Nearly everything is made overseas. Our clothing is made in China and Taiwan. Our cars are made in Japan. I once even say an American flag made in Singapore.

Uh, Americans want inexpensive goods. Sweathshops churn out goods with low overhead and labor costs. Sweatshops are against the law in the US. The conclusion is forgone. Next time look for the union label.

[Adalbertus]

I'd wonder if more than 1/5th of the restaurants in Germany offer mostly German food. Lots of Italian, Greek, Turkish stuff and McDonalds. To a good part it is that German personnel is too expensive (save students ...), and south European restaurants are family business. But I think this is an enrichment. After our weekly choir repetitions, we went to a Czech/German (owner Czeh, husband German) restaurant, since they moved to a Palestinian offering a good mixture of Arab and Greek food (his wife is Greek). After the concerts in our usual locations, we go to an Italian, German, or Greek restaurant. That's interesting.

Most songs in radio or TV are American. This is too much, but I've heard German pop music sucks. In classical music, there is a good representation of German music (and listening to French classical music broadcasts, I felt almost in Germany ).

Cultures never are static and are almost always on the way to absorb foreign influence. American culture is a direct product of a mixture of a lot of cultures. The same holds for the French, German, English, Italian, Spanish ... "culture" in a way that I prefer to understand all of them as dialects of a European culture.

Don't complain but perform your own culture. It's up to you. It's not foreigners who destroy American culture by following their own but it's Americans who do so by not following it. (Applicable to any culture.)

[Lancer]

The whole place is totally wierded out.