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Originally Posted by Charlatan
How are they different? Why would anyone import if not to consume?
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What concerns me more than non-Americans seething at the content spewing from America, are the "hell yeah" responses from Americans upon consuming their own content. As you said earlier, American media is very good at marketing the "American way." How many Americans disagree that "America is the best nation in the world"? I'm not suggesting that most people don't say the same thing about their own nations, but the American message is rather prevalent, as we have already agreed. Consider the difference between making the rest of the world sick of your garbage and having your own fellow citizens think it's nourishing...
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The point is that American culture is spread via vast network of sources. It arrives in foreign nations without the original context (i.e. it is consumed by people who don't have the same context as say an American sitting in Sherman Oaks would have).
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This is what I was getting at. And to think that context is merely one ingredient in the recipe of communication. Are you thinking of the bias of the American newmedia and how it is read differently by viewers and readers of other nations? Read
this interesting commentary, for example. Of course, we could also compare these American news outlets to Canadian ones to stay on the topic of this thread, but we just may find comparable parallels.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
This goes without even getting into cultural imperialism, which raises a whole other kettle of fish.
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And don't forget that can of worms to catch said fish...