In what European countries are American pop culture least pervasive? (difference, Canadian)
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I know the topic is least pervasive, but one day I was on the flipping through the channels during a summer in Germany when this appeared on the television:
Couldn't believe it! Youtube to see how bad and MTV-pandering it actually is.
Obviously this doesn't generalize the whole country or anything, I just thought it was so effing funny.
Those frogs! How dare they value their language? How dare those filthy arrogants sing in their language?!
How dare they insist on speaking their language instead of Anglicising everything?
Pfff, how xenophobic they are.
I guess invading and exploiting half of Africa and other areas in Asia, Polynesia and the carribeans wasn't enough
German TV is full of scripted reality. Those shows do have a distinctive German feel to them, quite different to the ones on MTV. They are awful nevertheless.
Don't know what you are talking about! I can spot a Polish person a mile away!? Think you've gone a bit loopy there love.
Bollox, you cannot just 'spot a Polish person a mile away!' If that is the case tell me EXACTLY what it is that's different about them and I will tell you if it rings true with the Polish people I work with - oh and please don't call me 'love'.
I don't know any British person who thinks like that many understand the differences between the US and the UK. Both Countries are similar but not that similar and California is the least British part of the US anyway why didn't he not move to New England.
It's funny you should say this. A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in Boston, and another friend was staying a hostel downtown. There was an English girl staying there by herself, so our friend invited her to come out with us. She was going on and on about how America was nothing like the stereotypes. Where were the pick up trucks? The fatties? The guns? The ignorant, know-nothings? (We had hours of delightful conversation about world history and world events with her.) I'm sure she would have gotten more of the 'Murica, F Yeah! Experience' if she went to Texas instead. Boston is kind of like the UK with skyscrapers. It's nothing like the California city I grew up in.
I've noticed that certain awful byproducts of modern culture such as "reality TV" "pop music" and "fast food" tend to automatically be assumed to be American or a byproduct of American culture. While that is true for fast food to an extent, pop music and reality tv weren't actually started in America. The first "reality" tv show was called Nummer 28 and it was a dutch show and concept of Pop music actually started in Britain.
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