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

    Only a nanny government can save y'all! It will wipe your bottom and nurse you to sleep. So says Chirac, who's worried about the onslaught of Hollywood movies on unsuspecting Vietnamese.

    Maybe I should repost this in the "stupid people in the news" thread?

    HANOI, Oct 7 (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac warned Thursday of a "catastrophe" for global diversity if the United States' cultural hegemony goes unchallenged.

    Speaking at a French cultural centre in Hanoi ahead of Friday's opening of a summit of European and Asian leaders, Chirac said France was right to stand up for cultural and linguistic diversity.

    The outspoken French president warned that the world's different cultures could be "choked" by US values.

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

    Citing Hollywood's stranglehold over the film industry as an example, Chirac stressed that only with government assistance could countries maintain their cultural heritage.

    Vietnam is a former French colony, but only around 375,000 of its 81 million people speak French. English is considered by most people a far more valuable and practical second language, particularly among businessmen.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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    France sucks. Chirac sucks. What's new?
    "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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    • #3
      He's right on that one.
      What?

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      • #4
        Like somebody's forcing y'all to watch Hollywood movies.

        Hollywood movies aren't even Hollywood movies any more. They're all from Australia and New Zealand!
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          There already is a world-wide sub-culture based on the English language, its called business.

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          • #6
            And science.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #7
              Fvck France
              Monkey!!!

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              • #8
                Its the Japenesse who realy control the Pop-culture, all our children are being brainwashed by their saturdaymorning cartoons. That and their Anime is better then most of our movies too.

                Oh and I am shure this is all a plot by the French to spread their own cultural hegomony across the globe. Then after everyone else is dead from Cholesterl laden Pastry Heart-Attacks the French be the only ones remaining and will rule the world. (But then who would they surender too?)
                Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick Nietzsche

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                • #9
                  Being overrun by USAian culture is one thing, but having local childrens entertainment beaten by Japanese anime is so galling, Chirac can not even mention it.
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                  • #10
                    Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion?

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                    • #11
                      Non coercive? What are you talking about? Every French town has an executive sent from Hollywood whose sole job is to kidnap passerby, steal E8.50 from them and force them to watch Bourne Identity. Chirac is just protecting the Vietnamese from the same fate!
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
                        Being overrun by USAian culture is one thing, but having local childrens entertainment beaten by Japanese anime is so galling, Chirac can not even mention it.
                        Its so gauling
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
                          Its the Japenesse who realy control the Pop-culture, all our children are being brainwashed by their saturdaymorning cartoons. That and their Anime is better then most of our movies too.

                          Oh and I am shure this is all a plot by the French to spread their own cultural hegomony across the globe. Then after everyone else is dead from Cholesterl laden Pastry Heart-Attacks the French be the only ones remaining and will rule the world. (But then who would they surender too?)
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Geronimo
                            Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion?


                            Marketing is coercive.
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                              Buy Buy Buy!

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