Which cultures do you most admire/find most interesting?

[Wraith]

--"Thanks, I'll go look for it. I'm using XP but have office 2000 installed. Does that make a difference?"

No. It's installed on the OS end of things.
Just go into Control Panel - Regional Options. The last tab, Input Locales, is what you'll want.

--"As for romanji"

Well, it is a debateable point, I suppose. Romaji just doesn't work as well. Is that nai a na-i or a n-a-i? I think spelling things in romaji first and then trying to learn the kana spelling is more trouble.

Wraith
"It can only be attributable to human error."
- HAL 9000

[Boris Godunov]

German for the music, Italian for Roman history and opera, and Chinese because it's just cool.

[Mikhail]

Russia has no culture. It's stolen from other slavic countries.

Really, why no Slavic? There is more the Europe than just the West.

[GePap]

Mexican culture is unique in Latin America, and very different from Andead culture. Between the ex-aztecs and ex-Incas you get a mixed bag, a really polyglot mix of Native American, african,and Iberian (I agree Iberian should have been included)

Brazil is heavily African with Iberain mixed in, and Aregntines and Chileans like to see themselves as another mix of Europeans, with Italian and german being the strongest.

[Frankychan]

thanks Wraith, I'm going to try it out.

(sorry for the brief threadjack, everyone)

[cinch]

Similiar to Pinyin or Wade-Giles (ugh) for Chinese.

Pinyin is Tse-Tung and WG is Zedong, right?

Or is it the other way around?

(Sure I 'could' look this up for myself, but asking is more fun...)

[Caesar the Great]

italy
germany
greece
britain

[Drake Tungsten]

Pinyin is Tse-Tung and WG is Zedong, right?

I think it's the other way around. WG sucks because it was based on Italian pronounciations, IIRC, and is therefore more difficult for English readers to decipher. Pinyin is far superior, IMO.

[Zero]

every culture is good.

They all have a way to make food others never thought of.

They all have at least one hot looking girl.

All cultures are worth exploring.

[monolith94]

I didn't read the rules, and as a result I voted for all of them, as I find all of them interesting.

[Ben Kenobi]

Britain:

What language are we typing here on this site?


Russian:

Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevski, Pushkin.

And that's just for literature.

No Russian culture?


Korean:
For a balance of the world.

Good thread!

[St Leo]

I admire the geek culture. The rest of them are pure evil.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Calc II
every culture is good.

They all have a way to make food others never thought of.

They all have at least one hot looking girl.

All cultures are worth exploring.

Every culture is evil.
They hold back progress.
They often repress certain groups or minorities.
They can put people's lives at risk for their own sake.

All culture my be eradicated!


Anyway, I choose Japanese, Chinese, and Britainese.