Chirac warns of 'catastrophe' of world 'choked' by US values

[FredKarno]

Hollywood does 'suck' big time

How many of yous have your minds sucked up by countless films - infinite corruption and rubbish and falsness stuffed into your brains?
France does not 'suck'. Chirac is a ****e politician, he is not France. Is Holywood America?

[Solomwi]

[Whoha]

Re: Hollywood does 'suck' big time

Originally posted by FredKarno
How many of yous have your minds sucked up by countless films - infinite corruption and rubbish and falsness stuffed into your brains?
France does not 'suck'. Chirac is a ****e politician, he is not France. Is Holywood America?

Not me, I look at what is posted on the internet.

[Sprayber]

and Chirac went WHEE , wee All the Way Home

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by St Leo

Originally posted by Geronimo
Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion?

Marketing is coercive.

It is coercive, but not so much in a cospiritorial way.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by St Leo

Originally posted by Geronimo
Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion?

Marketing is coercive.

give me an example of such coercion then!

[FredKarno]

reply to Whoha

I know that this seems a contradiction, seeing this is the internet in which we state our views, but surely you cannot be serious?
..................Ha ha, I see your joke. Good one. I am a pompous fool. Cheers for reminding me. All is futility!
All the best.

[OzzyKP]

Just wait till Bollywood takes over.

[Shi Huangdi]

I think Chirac is trying to increase his domestic popularity by engaging in US bashing.

[Solomwi]

Nah, Shi... he's trying to get an invitation to join the House of Saud.

[Patroklos]

I would think France would be flatered, we learned all about cultura dominance from them in the first century of our existance.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Just wait till Bollywood takes over.

When that time comes, I commit suicide

[Bosh]

This, he said, would lead to a "general world sub-culture" based around the English language, which would be "a real ecological catastrophe".

Bwa ha ha! My evil plot for the destruction of world culture is unfolding. *goes back to teaching english to koreans*

[DanS]

So says the vanguard of the American cultural hegemony legions.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn


It is coercive, but not so much in a cospiritorial way.

It's not coercive, but Chirac is right that American culture can be overwhelming. The economic power of the American entertainment industry, fueled by domestic earnings, gives it the potential to overwhelm smaller markets. This has nothing to do with the quality of the product, but rather the money available for marketing. If left unchecked, Amerian culture could choke off other cultures, although I think it is more likely that we'll see the rise of a multinational culture rather than a specific global Americanised culture.