Re: Country Related: Christmas
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 18:09 |
Thorinn scripsit:
> That's as may be, but the image projected to the rest of the world is
> of a country obsessed with superficial Protestant-derived morals,
Too true. U.S.-bashing is easy enough, and I do enough of it
myself.
> laced with a ridiculous insistence on an even more superficial and
> formulaic racial/cultural pseudo-neutrality,
Better jaw, jaw than war, war: as was said (presumably by a
non-rhotic speaker) of the U.N.
> If the US is a true multicultural society,
It isn't, though some of us would like to see it become one.
> then why is it only the
> guys in the WASP ghetto that make movies and TV?
Money, the answer to all "Why do they?" questions.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)