Quote: (07-18-2010 03:17 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
We have a culture here just like any other place. We may have a strong consumerist element in our culture, but you know? Everybody else wants it too. Go to any poor country in Latin America and the elites pretty much live like Americans with their kids having a Nintendo Wii and the lastest smart phone so they can check their facebook at the movie theatre while watching Eclipse, and flying to Miami for a weekend of shopping.
Nintendo is Japanese
The cell phones come from Europe or Asia
The US is a young country and its multicultural. Much like Australia or New Zealand the only real culture it has are the original people that inhabited it. The rest of the culture is a mesh of European and Asian influence. Same goes for the USA, which has worldwide influence. There is no culture. They are countries full of immigrants that have had their stamp on the place in some way.
No shame in it either IMO.