Is American Culture Being Overwhelmed By Foreign Cultures?

[gunkulator]

Who cares? Let other nations fret over their precious culture. America is practically defined by its lack of cultural trappings. Revering one's culture inevitably involves backward looking "golden age" nostalgia. Ah the good old days. Rubbish! Wipe it all clean. The best is yet to come.

[Boris Godunov]

American culture is made up of foreign cultures. How can they be destroying something of which they are a part?

[Jac de Molay]

The worst of all is that there is hardly anything American left here anymore.

There wasn't anything "American" to begin with, unless you were referring to its native peoples.

I think the fact that there is no one distinctive core culture can only be a strength.

edit for NO

[Spiffor]

Re: Is American Culture Being Overwhelmed By Foreign Cultures?

Originally posted by DaShi
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.

The day people in the US say "let's go out for American" rather than "let's go to McDonalds" is the day where your culture would be marginal, at least about food.
The day the American people say "let's go see an American movie" rather than "let's go see the latest Spielberg" is the day where American culture will be overwhelmed by foreign cultures in cinema...

If it happened to you, you wouldn't write this post as a joke, you can bet on it.

[Bereta_Eder]

Who cares? Let other nations fret over their precious culture. America is practically defined by its lack of cultural trappings. Revering one's culture inevitably involves backward looking "golden age" nostalgia. Ah the good old days. Rubbish! Wipe it all clean. The best is yet to come.


I don't think so. Older culture of many nations is not a "trap" ( ) but a precious well from where water can be drawn to water modern trees of cultural expression.


You just don't have that well


Seriously, french artists can draw from the revolution archives for example and create something new that does have a source to something old.


To have nothing behind you is a curse not a blessing, this is self evident.

Of course cultures are like attached bottles, they flow freely between themselves.

So an american can also have access to said french revolution written archives and make something new out of them. ( 5 bucks it will be a new joke about france but anyway)

[Velociryx]

Exactly....it's already been said before but American culture IS the intermixing of the rest. That's why it's called the "melting pot."

It's also why it can't be "destroyed" per se, because it doesn't really exist as an entity unto itself (ie - the only way to destroy American culture is to destroy the cultures of every nationality who's ever immigrated here, which, I would imagine, covers most, if not all).

It's also rather funny when people argue from the other perspective, that "American culture" is taking over the world. So? If it's an amalgum of every culture (yours included)...who cares? Surely there are bigger fish to fry than that?

-=Vel=-

[Bereta_Eder]

because unfortunately it is often reduced to the least common denominator

(a curse for all mass media products really, not just american)

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by BeBro
For English food that doesn´t seem too bad

"To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day." - W. Somerset Maugham

[Velociryx]

the thing is, Patty Cakes, is even IF "American culture" spreads to every corner of the globe, it's not like it subverts or destroys the "parent culture" (if it did, it could not exist in the first place), so what's the trouble? Enjoy both, or enjoy one, ignore the other.

-=Vel=-

[HershOstropoler]

I don't see either how american culture could destroy european culture. That's a ridiculous idea.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Velociryx
the thing is, Patty Cakes, is even IF "American culture" spreads to every corner of the globe, it's not like it subverts or destroys the "parent culture" (if it did, it could not exist in the first place) so what's the trouble? Enjoy both, or enjoy one, ignore the other.

-=Vel=-

the bolded phrase doesnt make sense.


the problem is that cheap products (which as said are reduced to the least common denominator as to be accessible by the wider possible audience) in a free market economy can indeed lead to inactivity the domestic industry.

i refer you to hamelink's cultural autonomy for more details about that.


theones in primal danger are theones who already share critical pramteres in common such as language (which makes uk, australia and canada a bit more subscectible)

[HershOstropoler]

Re: Re: Is American Culture Being Overwhelmed By Foreign Cultures?

Originally posted by Spiffor

The day people in the US say "let's go out for American" rather than "let's go to McDonalds" is the day where your culture would be marginal, at least about food.

What do you mean?

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by HershOstropoler
I don't see either how american culture could destroy european culture. That's a ridiculous idea.

It is but that doesn't mean they don't do harm.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Dashi this was a pretty good making-fun-of-Boddington's troll .

[Bereta_Eder]

and there isnt "one" european culture either.