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I would say NYC is the cultural capital of the US. Best in fashion, media, performance art, museums, etc. As Henry James said, culture is in the air in NYC.
LA, IMO, will always be the center of the movie industry and I just dont see that changing. The weather and geography in LA is to die for!
Actually, I just disagree with most of the content you've posted in this thread. That tends to happen in a forum - some folks agree, some disagree. Seems you disagree with me. I'm OK with that. I don't view that as coming after me in a negative manner.
If you want to keep picking at this rather than add any further substance to the thread, feel free. I've moved on. I'll let my posts in this thread speak for themselves.
ok...whatever you say.Not worth arguing over .I suppose we could both agree on that.
I'd like to know why also, especially since a lot of American culture, especially musically, rests on the foundations of cultural elements that arose and were nurtured in the South (e.g., blues, jazz, etc.).
If American 'culture' ever shifts to any of the Southern States, this country is in serious cultural trouble.
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Why?
From the tone of his post, I inferred things that have taken off and spread from the South like obesity, fast-food 'culture', Baby/Child beauty pageants, repressive forms of fundamentalist Christianity, Wal*Mart consumerism, etc.
Those are all things that have already spread throughout the country, by the way. And rather stereotypical, I might add.
Of, course, I don't define Southern culture by that since the South has produced a very laudable and rich culture in America, but I am assuming it is those types of things that he meant. He is playing with a double edged sword, though. The North and the West have their own... cultural issues. :-)
HELL NO. In fact, I can't think of anything Atlanta has produced culturally except Crunking and Dirty South Beats.
Get out of here. You are ridiculous.
Thats YOUR ignorance.
Atlanta has produced no more or less what other similar sized and of similar aged cities have produced.Some more important than others but still of cultural relevance to American culture.
Why is it that hip hp and rap contributions to American culture are downplayed despite its popular nationwide and even somewhat worldwide following?
San Francisco gave us the hippie culture.Mind altering drugs, sexual indiscretions,anti government political contributions that often involved communist leanings.
Seattle and Portland gave us grunge music whose top celebrity killed himself after on drugs.
Only cities that tend to be older have given us a lot of what our culture is but even those cities most of the time represent the region than the actual city itself where much of the culture derives from.Atlanta is younger but its no different.People when asked think asked to nm major city in the South(for whatever reasons)often say Atlanta.Atlanta represents the cultre of the South.Even sometimes when it does not apply.
For example did you know that although the South gets the bad rap about being more racist,yet Atlanta was the ONLY city (in the South and one of the few in the whole U.S) that during the era of Civil Rights that segregated without the riots?It was the only city whose mayor who did not support to continue Jim Crow and testified as the only mayor from the South who spoke out as such in front of Congress.
So while I don't think Atlanta is on any level culturally with LA.It has made a case as one of the few national centers where music,media,literature as well as icons like Coca Cola,Gone With The Wind and other world known things have originated from OR have been represented buy the region Atlanta.
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