Re: Anyway, I wish you a nice night out there in Bruxelles' taxis, and listen to my advice, open up your eyes, look outside, not into your memory alone.
I think you'd better follow your own advice: the Millenium Round is not about "memory" since it has not been held yet! It will be the next bone of contention between Europe and the US --within the WTO framework. BTW, such an event will be a nice opportunity to see whether European anti-Americanism is so faint, as you claim, or not....
As regards your cell phone story and the assumption that Europeans generally grant the US the paternity of each and every new gizmo, you might be right --but then again, what does it have to do with KULTUR???? Sure enough: Europeans know all too well America's lead in computer technologies, in the showbiz industry (ie Hollywood and its satellite industries: the videogame/virtual reality labs, the toy-merchandizing biz, the music/sound track biz, etc.), and, lately, in the emerging e-commerce cyberworld (e-retailing, e-banking, e-you-name-it!) but all that does not change the European notion of CULTURE! A cell phone, a music CD, an MP3 widget, a laptop, EVEN A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, by European standards, ARE NOT CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS! They're merely mundane, materialistic fiddlings produced by narrow-minded and DIY-minded folks..... Luciano Pavarotti, British director Stanley Kubrik, Bayreuth's lyric mecca, la Scala de Milano, le Louvres, le Mont Saint-Michel, Dante, Cervantes, Picasso, Magritte, Rembrandt, Mozart, German limos, Belgian chocolates and trappist beers, Italian pastas, French wines, cognac, Portuguese ports, French and Italian designers (Versace, Yves-Saint-Laurent, Gucci,...), Spanish architect Bofil, the Academie Francaise, the Swiss clockmakers, etc, etc, etc, etc. THESE ARE GENUINE CULTURAL PRODUCTS (according to Europe's cast of mind) but not Yankee burgers, blue jeans, Baywatch and Dallas TV series, the Nasdaq, and dull US cars.....
Regards,
Gus.
PS: BTW, talking of memory stuff.... do I have to remind you the topic of this thread? Remember: it was about the KOSOVO WAR! You should browse back through the previous messages and check out how Kosovo has smoothed out anti-Americanism in Europe --LOL! ESPECIALLY IN GREECE, FRANCE, ITALY and --why not?-- inside your own ECOFREAK party, die Grune! |
