[lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans?

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 26 11:34:54 PDT 2004



>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



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