Music Banter - View Single Post - Cultural Imperialism and the Homogenization of the Western World

Neapolitan · 03-12-2010, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by duga

I have actually been outside of Indiana. The "melting pot" aspect of this country is a very small portion of it. Middle America is all the same as Indiana (I'm talking Illinois, Iowa, Idaho, Ohio, Michigan, etc...exclude the big cities as I find a decent amount of culture there, but also a whole lot of other crap)...maybe by coincidence I missed all the good parts of that region, but I don't think so.

Have you traveled outside the country? That isn't meant to be critical, I'm simply asking. There are more accepting areas of the US, but I won't back down from what I said after living abroad. Once you have that experience, it is easy to see how closed the US is in terms of culture even at their best.

I really can not agree with that at all. The US is very open, it has more language spoken and more religions practice then most countries in the world. More parades for more nationalities then anywhere I know of. It's like an open city not a enclosed fortress, people come cross it's borders at will, on a daily basis. I've met a lot of people nationalities and it's amazing how many keep their old prejudices from their old country. So in that way I don't see the US as closed culturally as much as it's a global phenomenon.