John Atkinson schrieb:
> Oddly enough, American culture is the world culture.
Volume as per number of people belonging to it? Chinese, Indian and Latino
cultures probably are similar if not bigger
on that count. ;-)
And American culture has a talent for absorbing and redistributing elements of
other cultures, whether Pizza, Hamburger or Sushi; Manga, Musicals or Fairy
Tales. Not neccesarily a bad thing.
Greetings
In a message dated 11/30/01 7:26:39 AM Central Standard Time,
> KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de writes:
> And American culture has a talent for absorbing and redistributing
Sounds like a philosophy that needs a name. How about: "Amalgamism".
> At 8:50 AM -0500 11/30/01, Popeyesays@aol.com wrote:
You misspelled that. Its 'Americanism'...
> --- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
Yes, but if we delete all the illiterates (I don't count anyone who can't at
least read as being much more than pack animals) then the US is back in the
running.
> And American culture has a talent for absorbing and
Yes, well it prevents us from getting sort of tunnel vision that leads to
declaring all art other than what is currently popular with the political
elite to be "Degenerate".
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