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Pastimes : Kosovo
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To: Neocon who wrote (5969)4/29/1999 6:25:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
This is possibly true. I know I have seen some really embarrassing foreign dreck, especially on television.

I have noticed that the respect that people have for foreign culture is due in part to the fact that the silly, vulgar and generally poor attempts are rarely exported. When you go to a video rental store and pull something off the Foreign Film shelf you're limited to great movies like "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring" or "Tampopo" or "Das Boot" or "My Life as a Dog" or (my own favorite) "Wings of Desire" and so on. With a selection like that, you can't help but be impressed.

As a sidebar, I wonder why it is that Europeans in particular tend to brag about their culture while we Americans tend to deride ours. It certainly is pervasive, and it is common in elite circles in the rest of the world to mock American culture. Maybe we just want to fit in. Maybe we're trying to somehow apologize for McDonald's.
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