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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
When you're talking about the 60's, we sorta are. I'm not going to get into a culture war here, but I wouldn't look at the U.S. like you look at Euro countries because we don't operate in the same way. There is nothing that makes a person distinctly "american" and so despite our arrogance, its hard to lay claim to what makes up "better" than anyone else.
You should view U.S. culture as your culture to.
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I don't get it, why should be view the U.S. culture as our culture, too? I see US culture as completely separate to the culture of my country.
Of course when it comes to Woodstock, it's the US that is the centre of all that. I wasn't referring to Woodstock or the hippie movement specifically but more broadly about the operation of the world on a larger scale in the '60s.
I can see how America was significant to other countries in the 1960s, but it was still not the only place in the world where significant things were happening - I guess that's what I was trying to say. Australia in the 1960s had a sh
itload of its own stuff going on - especially a huge movement of protests/ strikes trying to claim Aboriginal land back and hippie movements focusing on living peacefully with both Aborigines and other Australians.
I was responding to a statement about what it would be like to live in the 1960s, and just wanted to point out that the US wasn't the only place in the world and existed and lived through radical change during that time.
I guess I'm also just sick of the US being portrayed as the center of everything and a lot of people thinking the America is the center of the world and everything revolves around them. Not you personally, just a general frustration.