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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (5952)	4/29/1999 4:39:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Gustave--- The old guard largely strikes back through subsidies, trade barriers, and content regulation. In Canada, for example, if they didn't mandate a certain amount of Canadian programming in the media, everyone would just watch American tv and listen to American radio. Come to think of it, since most of the population lives within 200 miles of the border, most of them do watch American tv and listen to American radio. But the same sort of thing is true elsewhere. Even French wine feels the need for protection against the better California labels, and the center of the art world has been New York since the War. But the point is not that there is no residual national, or even local, culture, but that American cultural penetration is pervasive, and forms the basis for a world- culture...

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (5952)	4/29/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I agree with your assessment of the European superiority complex. Not that I totally agree with the complex, but I also dont disagree! :) Certainly Americans are a loud and rather tacky bunch. Most Americans do, IMHO, lack a refined sense of "taste." This may very well be because America has lacked an aristocracy in the form of Europe, an aristocracy which has always been the arbiters of good Taste. Europe is still very class (or caste) oriented, and I have read plenty of the English sense of "where one belongs." No doubt without the notorious Robber Barons of the 19th and 20th centuries, America would be hopelessly classless. Its ironic that the "new riches" who were reviled and precipitated the Sherman Antitrust Act were the very ones whose philanthropy almost singlehandedly built an American infrastructure of culture. Without these Darwinist Predators of Society as they were percieved, the University of Chicago, for example, would probably be a community college ;) But, I have to disagree with you on the point of literature. America has produced well enough and of quality to stand beside Europe in prose and poetry, my opinion as always! And who can argue the place of Broadway in world theatricals?