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Red at Pantheon.Global wrote:
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} What culture you from?
Pepijn Schmitz <pschmitz at no.spam.stormtech.com> writes:
>> I'm from the Netherlands. Why?
Well, part of your culture if part of ours. Now, it might be the
part that mostly left the Netherlands (given the marked contrast
between the culture we see in TV stories and reports from friends
who have visited there or are from there, and the culture of the
Dutch immigrants that dominates some parts of West Michigan, this
would not surprise me) a century ago, but it is part of ours, too.
A rather strong part in certain regions of the U.S.
>And you're saying that it doesn't reflect on a culture if its members carry
>guns and shoot each other dead by the dozens each day. Surely you don't mean
>that.
I could just as well observe that Europe tolerates a rate of slaughter
on its highways that would have Americans outraged.
You are assuming a homogeneity in American culture that simply does
not exist. What you see on TV is a particular subset of that culture,
depicted in a way that sells well. The variety (and, in most cases,
tolerance of same) in the U.S. is often a surprise to visitors. The
fact that TV takes the exceptional and makes it the story-du-jour is
more indicative of the fact that some of the things you mention are
the exception rather than the rule in the U.S.
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