I'm swedish, and I'd say I'm about 50% american, (culture wise that is) if not even more.
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adamch-1 — 18 years ago(July 17, 2007 05:14 PM)
I'm swedish, and I'd say I'm about 50% american, (culture wise that is) if not even more.
My uncle lives in California and I've been to the US several times.
And I, like most swedes consume tons of american culture every day.
And about 40% of all the american culture that I consume is very, hooo-yaaa! God bless, omg we're so f''king great!
I'ts usually tucked into quality stuff though, so I'l still watch it, but somewere in the back of my head I still get annoyed. Because you market yourselves so strongly as "The place", "the land of the free", "the american dream" and so on. And it annoys me simply cause I know it's not true.
America is ranked below top 20 in freedom of press, speech and religion. Below top 15 in "how easy it is to go from poor to rich". And below top 15 in " worlds most democratic counties". The last of these surveys were made by the economist, dunno bout the others but read them in the news. But don't take my word for it, look it up and you'l see that I'm right.
But I like the US all in all, but of course, for us europeans, it's fun to poke some holes in your illusions.
As well as I'm sure it's a bit fun for Von Trier to make a movie about slaves in "the land of the free".
Even tough I don't think that's what the movie was about. So many messages worked into this movie worth thinking about. Many of wich had nothing to do with either america or race. -
Mr_Jim — 18 years ago(June 26, 2007 12:49 AM)
Why hes says he is an American? Its easy, its because we have to endure so much bad TV from the states every day, and culture influence as a whole, so im almost an American myself. But im not angry, i watched so many bad American movies im starting to like the few good ones, thank you for that. Pax Americana friends and hopefully Von Trier will get healthy soon and finish his trilogy.