[lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org>
>
>I think a lot of Europeans and other non-Americans who have never been  to 
>the U.S., or if they have, came only for short junkets, greatly  
>underestimate the differences between the various parts of the country.

There are still regional differences in the US, but they are diminishing and 
I think outsiders are correct in seeing the US as a place of fairly uniform 
degenerate culture.  The stupefying commercialism that binds America 
together as a nation is more powerful than any dwindling traces of regional 
tradition.

Carl