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Originally posted by JeremySF
Are you telling me Tonya Harding and Jerry Springer aren't high culture? Fuck! What about porn?
In all seriousness, though, I'd say there are white trash elements in a lot of cultures: English, German, Swedish, Australia and of course in the U.S.
But, given how young we are, we've contributed a fairly significant amount to culture, of course both high and low.
The same country that brought you Tonya Harding, Jerry Springer, and Coyote Ugly also brought you jazz, blues, rock, house music, hip hop and film.
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I was I no way saying america didn't have high culture, that would have been counter-productive to my point, merely reminding escorpio that America isn't held with the highest cultural regard by other countries, and for every trashy thing about Australian culture there is a parallel in American and any other for that matter. I used Tonya Harding as a direct comparison to Chopper Reid as a criminal in the spotlight. Not as an example of "american culture".
Having said that, Australians do enjoy an anti-hero, but also theres parity between ned kelly and say billy the kid.. it's much of a muchness.
Actually Australia made the first feature length film "The story of the kelly gang" in 1906... and for a while led the world in producing such films until other countries started in 1911..
my point in our countries youth is that 95% of other countries would laugh at either of us when talking about culture regardless of facts.. it's would be seen as like Australia and New Zealand arguing about military might and importance.