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Organize these cities into a list of which ones access the worlds culture most and which ones export their culture and their country's culture the best on the rest of the world.
Film, media, television are some considerations but also musical groups, theater, performing arts, food (fusion food included), murals, art, policies, ideas, and lifestyle also apply.
Estimate or guess of the number of people that each city's cultural power directly influences?
Think it's a nice thread where we can learn more about North America's nine best cities and their cultural powers IMO.
I'm not going to speak about Mexico City because I really don't know enough about it nor have I spent enough time in it to know it's status in regards to worldliness and cultural influence.
Anyways, LA and NYC are definitely far and away the biggest exporters of culture. Between the rest of the cities, I'd say Toronto, Chicago, Boston, and Montreal more or less export the same amount of culture to the rest of world. Though, if politics and technology is considered culture, than DC and SF would be a notch above those four cities.
In regards to accessing the rest of world's culture, they're all more or less the same. I mean, they're all large, forward thinking cities/metropolitan areas that have large global economies, people from all over the world, prestigious academic institutions, strong cultural institutions, and wealthy and worldly people...so these cities tend to take in a lot of the rest of the worlds culture.
LA and NYC, but I voted for LA. All the movies people watch (well, pretty much all) either take place in LA, were filmed there, have a main character from there, or all three. NYC is pretty close too.
Quite hilarious, laughable when you think about it that no one seems to know a single thing about Mexico or it's cities. Not saying it's the best but honestly, I cant see how a metropolis of 22 million and the epicenter of one of the worlds largest economies and population with distinguishable culture and history is playing such a backseat role to not just one American city but rather three on this poll (and one Canadian city).
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I voted for NYC, LA, Chicago and SF. I agree that NY and LA are far above the rest in this regard. To me, Chicago and SF seem to shape cultural influences more than the rest, though. They should form the second tier down. I also agree that DC's influence is political, not cultural, so it should be the last of this lot.
NYC, LA, Toronto, and Mexico City. These are the chief "cultural-exporters" in their respective countries.
The others don't have the same impact. The exception might be Montreal, because of how different Quebec is from the rest of Canada, but I thought I'd keep it simple.
NYC, LA, Toronto, and Mexico City. These are the chief "cultural-exporters" in their respective countries.
The others don't have the same impact. The exception might be Montreal, because of how different Quebec is from the rest of Canada, but I thought I'd keep it simple.
Yeah, that probably.
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