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Originally posted by Colin
No, Joe. I'm saying that a Spanish family watching Spanish television is participating in American culture because they are watching a television in the same way that an American family eating Spaghetti is participating in Italian culture because they are eating Spaghetti.
Many Europeans love Big Macs and Cokes - despite your personal preferences. Hell, the hamburger itself, despite it's name being similar to that of a German city was invented in America.
But never mind all that. TV is ours. The Movie projectors is ours. The phonograph. The telephone. The modern computer. What kind of culture produces such amazing products? One of innovation and technology. In the same way that Hungarian culture produced a series of great mathematicians last century and German culture produced a series of great physicists, American culture has produced great inventors.
How long did it take jazz, rock and roll, or rap to spread to Europe? American influence on music this century has been astounding.
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just as well america let in all those smart european migrants to invent all the complex machines, systems, algorithms, you name it...