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Good luck abroad because you will find the exact same thing although it might appeal to you as with everything abroad, "its a little different", to cop a line from Tarantino.
Anyone who spent more than an hour watching TV in Italy knows the land of Dante, Da Vinci and Fellini produces a surplus of drech centering on talk shows featuring busty bombshells (not without their appeal mind you).
Rod Stewart told Charlie Rose that American tabloids are "pussycats" compared to their British counterparts. I guess Shakespeare does not have the monopoly on culture there.
I have resided in Germany. Their TV and newstands are saturated with softcore porn, idiotic talk shows ("Neighbors who date Foreigners!!!") and mindless drivel regarding "music" videos. Goethe and Grass wept.
And let us not forget that the most overrated and vapid celeb of all, Lady or Princess Diana, died in France while being chased by photographers eager to feed a hungering public. Where were you Jean-Paul Sartre?
So by all means move abroad! But instead of espresso sipping intellectuals discussing Existentialism in the cafes, you will find Budweiser-swilling fans of Tom Cruise. Just like here.
It is because we don't have a cluture. As "Americans" we only care about getting what we want when we want it. That is pretty much it..
speak only for yourself, please! As long as there is "profit" in the kind of mindless divel that is being discussed in the above posts, it will continue to exist. When we get good and bored with it, and no longer support it financially, it will wither away and die, possibly to be replaced by even more shocking drivel, but (please) not necessarily.
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