America the cultureless?
As I sat eating buffet style pizza studying for an Advertising & Promotion's final scheduled for tomorrow morning 11am... I realized that all those complainers were wrong! They shouldn't be angry that they grew up in America the cultureless! They should be happy that they grew up in an open minded accepting country that borrows from other cultures.
In my experience as a student I have identified a pattern in nations with "culture," they like to kill people who aren't like them. I stumbled onto this realization partly when I was reading an article about how the world trade center was designed by a fellow named Minoru Yamasaki who had integrated islamic patterns into parts of the base of each tower, (the area where the buildings met the ground and there were pointed arches instead of rounded ones) found here. As a side note, this may have upset the Taliban because "westerners" were defacing their culture. Anyways... my second prompting occured while I was at Cici's Italian resturaunt and I noticed a photograph hanging on the wall that showed a Venice canal where there was one of those same islamic arches! I admired the beauty of the architecture and imagined how "cultureless" American tourists who were visiting Venice at that very moment might be doing the same exact thing, admiring the beauty. Then my mind began to wonder and I thought of all my friends' parents who love to travel and bring home neat things from all around the world. Was this something cultureless people would do? Aren't Americans one of the top demographics for tourism? Yeah, maybe it's because Americans have traditionally been rich but at least they spend part of thier money appreciating culture.
Summary: okay, maybe growing up in america means you miss out on having one common dance like salsa or tango, and no one really cooks the same things like Mexican or Italian, and there isn't really any one standard for having fun except for maybe cow tipping and video games but it's a small price to pay for our openness to other nationalities and lifestyles, not to mention foods. This isn't the most powerful argument, I realize that now, but it clicked for me today and I really see America as having a culture of openness and liberty, no machismo, no foot binding, just simple boaring American equality.
Yeah, I know this article is super hypocritical, foot binding? How about body image for teenage girls? Machismo? How about the uneaqual pay scale for men and women in the US? Both of these are watered down substitutes for "culture" in other countries... I donno, were getting there - away from culture and into digital exposure to all things evAr!
In my experience as a student I have identified a pattern in nations with "culture," they like to kill people who aren't like them. I stumbled onto this realization partly when I was reading an article about how the world trade center was designed by a fellow named Minoru Yamasaki who had integrated islamic patterns into parts of the base of each tower, (the area where the buildings met the ground and there were pointed arches instead of rounded ones) found here. As a side note, this may have upset the Taliban because "westerners" were defacing their culture. Anyways... my second prompting occured while I was at Cici's Italian resturaunt and I noticed a photograph hanging on the wall that showed a Venice canal where there was one of those same islamic arches! I admired the beauty of the architecture and imagined how "cultureless" American tourists who were visiting Venice at that very moment might be doing the same exact thing, admiring the beauty. Then my mind began to wonder and I thought of all my friends' parents who love to travel and bring home neat things from all around the world. Was this something cultureless people would do? Aren't Americans one of the top demographics for tourism? Yeah, maybe it's because Americans have traditionally been rich but at least they spend part of thier money appreciating culture.
Summary: okay, maybe growing up in america means you miss out on having one common dance like salsa or tango, and no one really cooks the same things like Mexican or Italian, and there isn't really any one standard for having fun except for maybe cow tipping and video games but it's a small price to pay for our openness to other nationalities and lifestyles, not to mention foods. This isn't the most powerful argument, I realize that now, but it clicked for me today and I really see America as having a culture of openness and liberty, no machismo, no foot binding, just simple boaring American equality.
Yeah, I know this article is super hypocritical, foot binding? How about body image for teenage girls? Machismo? How about the uneaqual pay scale for men and women in the US? Both of these are watered down substitutes for "culture" in other countries... I donno, were getting there - away from culture and into digital exposure to all things evAr!
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