>Eubulides wrote:
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>> I thought you asserted the US had no culture or culture makers?
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>> The list of living culture makers currently in the US is so huge and is
>> largely built on the names of the people I listed.........
>
>Contrary to the "Leftwing" fairy tales about the decline of US, US influence
>(economic and cultural) has grown enormously in my part of the world in the
>last 15 years. Neither the EU nor Japan have a fraction of that influence.
Why do you think that is? Is it purely economic power - the size of the Hollywood megaphone - or is it something more? Is the cultural product good? One explanation I heard at a conference in Munich a couple of years ago, which was held at America House and included a lot of European specialists in American studies, was that American pop culture conveys a feeling of freedom that people find infectiously appealing. Do you buy that?
Doug