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When I say Western maybe I should really say english speaking. I say this because the tongue is derived from germanic origin, an origin which was steeped in continual and sometimes meaningless wars and violence.
I mean that America has a more violent approach to media to entertainment and to world relations than most of the rest of the world and I was looking for a possible explanation. Eastern cultures and forgive me if this is a generalization usually associate noble cause with war, whereas I dont think America or a lot of "Western powers" do...instead it is just war. It is almost a factual part of life, a necessity. I'm thinking maybe the heavy prevelance of wars in the germanic society and it's development of a language around that society maay contribute to our view of war and violence.
But I'm really asking what everyone else thinks, becasue as I'm sure it can be deduced by my above message I am having a hard time making any connections that may exist.
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