Re: World Culture

--- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
> John Atkinson schrieb:
> > Oddly enough, American culture is the world
> culture. 
> > If we are counting two factors: volume, and
> breadth of
> > distribution.
> 
> Volume as per number of people belonging to it ?
> Chinese, Indian and Latino cultures probably are
> similar if not bigger 
> on that count. ;-) 

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
> redistributing 
> elements of other cultures, whether Pizza, Hamburger
> or Sushi; Manga, 
> Musicals or Fairy Tales. Not neccesarily a bad
> thing. 

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".

John

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